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A ton of people message me asking where to start with regulating their nervous system or somatic work. What even is somatics?? I was the same way. I understood that it helped people recover, but how? With nervous system regulation , first, you have to understand why this work is so important. Understanding it on a biological level is when it really started clicking for me. Right now, you have dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system . In simpler terms: the body’s “threat

Healing a chronic illness isn’t a quick fix or a straight line. It happens in layers, and it takes time. If your nervous system has spent years in a dysregulated state, it may take a year or more to help it feel safe again. Many people say there’s no “cure” for ME/CFS — and in a sense, they’re right. There isn’t one single cure. But that doesn’t mean healing isn’t possible. Healing and finding a “cure” are not the same thing. Recovery can happen, even without one universal so

For those unfirmilar with what an AP is, it stands for adjustment period. It's a dip, a flare up, PEM, etc. The time after you do (or don't) do a little more than what your body is used to or what your nervous system feels safe with. It's when you feel worse.... quite frankly it's when you feel like absolute shit. AP's can happen after anything that triggers your nervous system to feel that there is a danger threat. But it's very important that you remember that during this

ME/CFS is called a neurological illness for a reason. And it's also classified as a "syndrome" for a reason. The definition of a syndrome is group of signs and symptoms (subjective experiences) that consistently occur together, characterizing a specific medical condition, abnormality, or disorder, often without a single, clear-cut root cause. So when doctors can't help you make progress or offer you a cure for this, it is quite literally because they weren't taught how to. R