Have you ever noticed how the same situation can feel completely different depending on the day?

For example, your work, or relationships.
One day, life feels expansive, people seem kind, and everything flows.
Another day, the world feels heavy, irritating, exhausting, hard, or unsafe. It’s as if the whole world is very different. Or you may lose confidence, or feel fearful, like you just can’t get it right. 

But the truth is… it hasn’t.
You have.

This quote by Eknath Easwaran (neuroscientist) in his Bhagavad Gita introduction explains:

“We never really encounter the world; all we experience is our own nervous system.”

This simple sentence captures something profound about healing.
Our nervous system is the filter through which we see, feel and experience reality.
When it’s calm and regulated, life feels open, effortless, and possible.
When it’s in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn, life feels dangerous, chaotic, hard, hopeless, stressful. Even when nothing externally has changed.

The Lens That Shapes Our Reality

So much of our suffering comes from trying to fix what’s “out there” - other people, situations, the future - without realising that what we’re actually reacting to is what we are feeling inside our own body.

When the nervous system is dysregulated:

• Thoughts race, we catastrophise and spiral.
  
• Emotions surge, hijack or overwhelm us, or we feel shut down and stuck.
  
• The world feels like too much; we may feel exhausted or stressed.
  

When the nervous system is regulated:

• We can think clearly. Access solutions, wisdom, creativity, and best thinking.
  
• We feel connected to ourselves and others.
  
• Life feels safe. There is hope and possibilities.
  

This is why mindset work alone often doesn’t stick.
The mind can’t believe what the body doesn’t feel is true.

A Story of Transformation

A client I’ll call Sarah once said to me,

“I understand my triggers, but I just can’t stop reacting.”

She had spent years trying to manage her anxiety with thinking, talking about it and coping strategies. Yet her body would still flood and be taken over with panic the moment she felt unsafe.

In our sessions, we began by slowing down and tuning inwards. Listening to the somatic (sensory) language of her body rather than the story of her mind. We follow the symptom, as a thread into the unconscious root cause.

At first, she could only sense a tightness in her chest. Then came waves of heat, trembling, and grief of a childhood event that had been waiting decades to be met, seen and felt. Meeting this event as a well resourced and supported adult, her body completed those old survival responses, and something subtle but powerful shifted.

The same situations that once felt threatening now felt neutral.
Her world hadn’t changed. Her nervous system had.

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Why This Matters

When we understand that we’re not experiencing “life,” but our nervous system’s “filter” of life, healing becomes both simpler and more compassionate.

We stop judging ourselves for our reactions.

We begin to recognise them as intelligent responses that once kept us safe.

And through Embodied Processing, we learn how to feel safely (and feel safe) again, allowing the body to gently release the baggage it’s been holding, so we can experience the world through a calmer, clearer, friendlier lens.

This isn’t about becoming calm all the time.

It’s about building capacity - the ability to stay present with whatever arises. And learning how to care for ourselves and work with our emotions, rather than be derailed by them.

This is true resilience. Staying present with our life experiences, rather than avoiding or becoming debilitated by them. 

About the Author

Hi, I’m Justine, a Somatic Therapy and Energy Healing Practitioner.  I came to learn and embody this work firstly through my own personal lived experience.

After years of serious addiction, I reached a point where self-medicating and avoidance was no longer an option. I needed emotional recovery, healing, and growth to rebuild my life from the inside out. As a highly sensitive, intuitive person, I had to learn how to make sense of,  and befriend, what was happening inside me, because it was shaping everything in my outer world. Especially intense emotions that were really knocking me around, and I just thought that was normal life. 

Embodied Processing was a complete game changer.
It taught me true emotional and nervous system (self) regulation, and supported my recovery from addictions, C-PTSD, a profound spiritual awakening, dark nights of the soul, and even a period of Kundalini Syndrome, all occurring simultaneously.

This gentle, safe modality held me steady and compassionately through immense personal healing and transformation.

Today, it’s how I give back. By supporting people looking to find balance, calm, clarity, stability, sense of safety, connection, strength, confidence, belonging, and trust. Together, we explore how to process emotional baggage, regulate and re-wire the nervous system, and heal from the inside out. It’s inner work I have embodied myself, which helps me hold deep compassion, warmth, empathy, and understanding for you.

Embodied Processing is empowering.
Helping us to cultivate strength, stability, groundedness, and emotional power. Allowing us to meet life from a baseline of presence and inner peace. It teaches us how to stay steady and connected, rather than getting knocked around by incomplete and unconscious survival energies.

Embodied Processing works at the root-cause level (deep in the unconscious), and it’s always profound to witness what we’re able to access and resolve through the innate wisdom of the body. This approach offers deep emotional recovery and growth. From dysfunctional adaptions and patterns, to a return to true nature, knowing yourself, with a resting baseline of higher emotional states. 

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An Invitation

When you heal and re-wire your nervous system, you change your experience of the world.

If you’re tired of feeling overwhelmed, stuck in old patterns, or ruled by your emotional reactions, somatic healing can help you shift what talking, thinking, analysing, or coping strategies can’t.

We work with the body to access and release the unconscious survival stress and emotional baggage that keeps you stuck.

If you want to:
• feel calmer and more grounded
• stop spiralling or getting hijacked and derailed
• stop hitting walls when you’re trying to make change
• break old cycles
• experience easier, healthier relationships
• and finally feel better inside yourself…

I’d love to support you.

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