Safe to Feel - Restoring Agility to your Nervous System - Audio edition

Author Bio 24.01.2026 0:52 ↓

A little about me.

Closing Reflection 24.01.2026 1:00 ↓

Let it be enough to pause, to breathe, to feel what you feel without rushing it away.

Chapter 20 - Integration, Wholeness and Living from Your Regulated Self 24.01.2026 5:54 ↓

"Healing is not becoming the best version of yourself. Healing is returning to the wholeness you never left"

Chapter 19 - Community, Co-Regulation and the Healing Power of Relationship 24.01.2026 7:25 ↓

"We heal through feeling safe in connection with others" Dr Stephen Porges - Neroscientist and Researcher

Chapter 18 - From Hypervigilance to Presence - Building a Felt Sense of Safety 24.01.2026 10:13 ↓

"safety is not the absence of threat. It is the presence of connection" Gabor Maté - Physician

Chapter 17 - Movement, Stillness and the Bodies Wisdom 24.01.2026 7:20 ↓

"The body says what words cannot" Martha Graham - Dancer, Teacher and Choreo grapher

Chapter 16 - Play, Pleasure and Joy - Nervous System Nourishment 24.01.2026 6:33 ↓

"It is a happy talent to know how to play" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosopher, Lecturer, Essayist and Minister.

Chapter 15 - Nature, Rhythm, and the Nervous System's Deep Memory 24.01.2026 6:23 ↓

"The earth has music for this who listen" George Santayana - Philosopher, Essayist, Poet and Novelist.

Chapter 14 - Sleep, Stillness, and the Night time Nervous System 24.01.2026 8:10 ↓

"Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together" Thomas Dekker - Dramatist & Writer

Chapter 13 - Boundaries and the Nervous System - Saying No Without Shutting Down 24.01.2026 7:20 ↓

"A boundary is the distance at which I can love you and still love myself" Prentis Hemphill - Embodiment Coach

Chapter 12 - Gut Feeling - The Nervous System and the Digestive Tract 24.01.2026 8:01 ↓

"The gut is not just a place where food is digested. It is where life is absorbed" Jennifer Mann - Author

Chapter 11 - The Social Nervous System - Connection as Medicine 24.01.2026 6:44 ↓

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we heal in relationship" Harville Hendrix - Author

Chapter 10 - The Vagus Nerve - Your Body's Social Superpower 24.01.2026 7:18 ↓

"The tone of your vagus nerve determines whether you feel safe in your body and in the world" Deb Dana Author

Chapter 9 - Emotional Regulation and the Inner Landscape 24.01.2026 7:50 ↓

You don't heal by controlling emotions. You heal by allowing them to move through you.

Chapter 8 - Everyday Regulation, Breath, Movement, Sound, Stillness 24.01.2026 7:56 ↓

In the stillness we find not only peace but power.

Chapter 7 - The Healing Power of the Parasympathetic State 24.01.2026 7:26 ↓

"Healing doesn't mean the danger never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life"

Chapter 6 - Safety First, The role of Felt Safety 24.01.2026 8:16 ↓

"True healing starts when we begin to feel safe in our own body - not just intellectually, but physically" Dr Anthea Todd - Women's Health Change Maker.

Chapter 5 - Chronic Dysregulation and its Consequences 24.01.2026 8:27 ↓

"Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you" Gabor Maté - Physician

Chapter 4: Decoding the Body's Signals 24.01.2026 7:19 ↓

"When you listen to your body whisper, you won't have to hear it scream"

Chapter 3 - Mapping the Mind-Body connection 24.01.2026 8:09 ↓

"Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen" Shakti Gawain - Writer.

Chapter 2 - A Brief History of Stress and Survival 24.01.2026 6:59 ↓

"The body always leads us home... if we can simply learn to trust sensations and stay with it long enough" Pat Ogden - Psychotherapist

Chapter 1 - The two branches of the autonomic nervous system 24.01.2026 6:37 ↓

Within your body lives a silent system, always working. Unseen, unfelt and really spoken about.

Introduction 24.01.2026 2:13 ↓

Why this book? Why now?

Dedication 24.01.2026 0:28 ↓

To all those I love & every client who has ever placed their health in my hands.

Title 24.01.2026 0:12 ↓

Safe to Feel - Restoring agility to your nervous system