Amanda Fincham

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

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Safe to Feel is a gentle, nervous-system-informed guide for anyone living with stress, anxiety, burnout, or chronic overwhelm. This audio book explores how the body responds to lived experience, why symptoms are often protective, and how safety — not force — supports healing. Each chapter can be listened to slowly, paused, or revisited. There is nothing to push through. Your body sets the pace.

Author

Amanda Fincham

Category

Health

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Latest episode

Jan 24, 2026

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Episodes

Author Bio 24.01.2026

A little about me.

Closing Reflection 24.01.2026

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

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

In the stillness we find not only peace but power.

Chapter 7 - The Healing Power of the Parasympathetic State 24.01.2026

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Introduction 24.01.2026

Why this book? Why now?

Dedication 24.01.2026

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

Title 24.01.2026

Safe to Feel - Restoring agility to your nervous system

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