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What Your Nervous System Is Trying to Tell You

What Your Nervous System Is Trying to Tell You

Today's video is about understanding your nervous system, trauma responses, and the small daily practices that help bring you back to calm

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Julia Samuel
Jul 02, 2025
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Before I share this week’s deep dive video I wanted to let you know that on Monday July 8th at 7pm BST I’m hosting a free 90-minute masterclass called “How to Stop Sleep-Walking Through Life and Actually Start Living It.”

In this masterclass, I’ll be sharing:

  • The #1 reason you can feel empty and lost, even when everything looks okay

  • Why self-help books, meditation apps, and even therapy haven’t fixed things, and what finally will

  • How to shift from constant “doing” to genuine being and break the exhausting cycle of “not enough”

  • A practical, 2-minute exercise to reignite your spark

  • Live Q&A where you can ask me anything

Save your free seat by clicking HERE


How do we begin to feel safe — not just physically, but emotionally, mentally, in our bodies, in our relationships, and in the quiet moments with ourselves?

This week’s video is a personal one. I’m speaking directly to you — our paid subscribers — about something we all experience but often don’t understand: what it really means to feel safe inside your own body, and how your nervous system plays a central role in that.

In the full video below, I walk you through:

  • What the autonomic nervous system actually is — and how it’s shaping your day, even if you don’t realise it

  • Why some of us get stuck in cycles of hypervigilance, overwhelm, or emotional shutdown — and why that’s not your fault

  • How trauma (including attachment wounds from childhood) lives in the body — and what it takes to start loosening its grip

  • A compassionate introduction to Polyvagal Theory (and how it can be applied in real life)

  • Practical tools for self-regulation — from breathwork and grounding, to self-compassion, co-regulation, and even… humming

You’ll also hear personal reflections from my own week — a reminder that these are not just clinical ideas, but lived experiences. This is work I return to again and again in my own life.

💬 “One of the most powerful things we can do for our nervous system isn’t to fix it — but to pay attention to it.”

This is a space where I want us to feel supported in doing just that — gently, without pressure, and with curiosity rather than self-judgment.

The full video is available below for paid subscribers. If you’re not yet subscribed and you’d like access — along with all past and future videos — you can upgrade below:

👉 Subscribe below to watch the full video

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