What is Your Nervous System?

Your nervous system is your body's control centre. It's constantly scanning your environment, processing information, and deciding whether you're safe or in danger. When it detects threat, it activates your survival responses: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. This is meant to be temporary, to keep you safe in moments of actual danger.

But here's what most people don't realise: your nervous system can get stuck in these protective states.

When you've:

👉 grown up needing to be hypervigilant

👉 spent years people-pleasing because saying no feels unsafe

👉 been constantly worrying about everything

👉 been feeling guilty when you try to rest

👉 been keeping everyone else happy while ignoring your own needs,

👉 been overthinking every decision

👉 or living with ongoing health challenges that won't resolve

your nervous system adapts and learns to stay on high alert. It starts treating everyday situations as threats, keeping you in a constant state of tension and readiness, even when you're actually safe.

This isn't happening in your mind, it's happening in your body, at a physiological level. Your nervous system is running an learned program that's trying to protect you from dangers that may no longer exist.

When your nervous system is stuck in survival mode, everything in your life is affected. Your sleep, your digestion, your immune function, your ability to feel calm, your relationships, your capacity to heal, everything.

The good news? We can rewire these patterns. Your nervous system is adaptable, and it can learn to feel safe again.

The Hidden Connection: How Childhood Patterns Create Adult Health Challenges

When I work with clients who are dealing with chronic anxiety, exhaustion, pain, or health issues that won't resolve no matter what they try, I often find the same pattern: their symptoms started long before they realised.

If you grew up in an environment where you:

👉 needed to be hypervigilant

👉 learned to people-please to stay safe

👉 couldn't predict what mood someone would be in or whether you'd be in trouble

your nervous system adapted. It learned that survival meant constant alertness, reading the room, making yourself small, anticipating problems before they happened.

These weren't conscious choices. You were a child doing what children do: adapting to survive.

But those early nervous system patterns don't just disappear when you become an adult. They continue running in the background, creating the anxiety you can't seem to shake, the exhaustion that never lifts, the physical symptoms that doctors can't fully explain, the hypervigilance that makes relaxation feel impossible.

I know this because I've lived it.

How I Discovered the Nervous System Connection

In March 2023 an allergic reaction to medication fried my vagus nerve and my nervous system went into complete overload.

My body rejected everything, I developed MCAS and chronic nerve pain, and I had to take immunosuppressants to stop my body fighting against itself.

Here's what stumped me: I'd been meditating for over 10 years and managed to get my eyesight back when doctors said I was going blind, so why weren't these techniques working now?

That's when I realised this wasn't just a mind problem, this was a nervous system problem.

All of my freebies, classes and personal coaching programs have been designed on the very same techniques and exercises that I use to regulate my nervous system so that I can feel more calm, happy and free every day, despite what challenges life throws at me.

I can't wait to help you do the same 😊