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True Nature Coaching & Education

🌿 Trauma-informed coach | 🌿 Psych PhD |
🌿 Supporting sensitive, introverted, neurodiverse souls to flourish through nervous system regulation

I support people to reclaim energy, calm, and wellbeing through teaching emotional literacy, healthy relating, and nervous system regulation. Drawing on PhD-level studies in psychology, lived experience of healing from complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) plus 20 year personal growth journey, I support you to heal and live the life you desire.

20/07/2025

The other day I took myself on a drive and visited a wildlife park about an hour from home.

I love animals and it was really special to spend some time up close with native wildlife (the ethics of caged animals is another discussion).

Going on drives to explore new places is one of the things I discovered I like to do since starting to heal my nervous system.

There has been so much I’ve learned about myself as I’ve come out of living in survival and begun to experience nervous system regulation.

It’s as though I hardly knew myself before starting this journey.

Through a slow but steady process of self-attunement and building nervous system capacity, life has shifted to one of fear-based survival to one of empowered choice and action.

Discovering the simple things that bring a sense of joy and meaning is one of the gifts of healing at this level.

After years of feeling empty, it’s such a blessing to connect with a sense of self and aliveness.

If you would like to chat about how nervous system work could support you to connect with your aliveness, type ‘ALIVE’ in the comments below.

To making the most of this one precious life 🌹

06/07/2025

I shift between different sources of information for guidance and wisdom.

Last night I started this book that is an account of a priest having a channeled dialogue with Jesus (Yeshua) and Mary Magdalene and straight away it pulled me back into the truth that were here to experience life through emotions.

Reclaiming feminine value is about reclaiming our relationship to feeling and emotion.

My seeking always circles back to this truth.

It’s not about just including emotions in our experience, it’s about radically recentring them as Truth and direct connection with God.

This is the path through. This is how we come back into connection with our humanity.

This is how we come back into connection with the heart.

01/07/2025

Something I notice a lot still in the mental health space, and to an extent, in the coaching space, is the emphasis on trying to help someone NOT feel their feelings.

This is despite growing awareness of the role of the body in trauma and adoption of concepts such as emotion regulation and window of tolerance.

Whether conscious or unconscious, there is an underlying goal of trying to find ways to help someone push away their emotions.

Even when teaching somatically-oriented exercises such as breath work, grounding, or another body awareness technique, currently they are used in service of “calming” and attemptig to stop the emotion the client is feeling.

Though well intentioned, it does not serve true healing.

As the saying goes, you’ve got to feel it to heal it.

Emotion is energy that is asking to be moved and expressed.

We don’t need more techniques to suppress emotion. We need more techniques (and spaces) that support people to safely feel and express emotions through the body.

Holding onto emotion makes us sick.

Learning to feel and express emotions is the path to healing and reclaiming our humanity.

Are you seeking a space where emotions are welcomed and you are compassionately supported to express difficult feelings and sensations?

As a trauma-informed somatic coach, I offer a 12-week program as well as single, 5-, and 10-session options.

Visit my website to book a free 30-minute connection call (link in bio). No sales-y pressure, just human connection.

03/06/2025

As a highly sensitive woman with early developmental trauma (plus some neurodivergent traits) overwhelm is something I’ve experienced A LOT.

If you’d like to learn more about nervous system support for overwhelm, you can access a free guided exercise when you sign up to my newsletter via my website (link in bio).

And if this post resonated, I’d love to hear about it in the comments! ⬇️

23/05/2025

It’s ok to be discovering/reinventing who you are at any age.

I’m only discovering who I am now at 45 after healing trauma and coming out of survival mode.

Now that it no longer feels like I’m going to die if I make a mistake, get it wrong, change my mind.

It means I try things and they don’t work out.

I tried holidaying in Fiji like I did as a 20-something in my backpacker days, roughing it on a budget, and it was awful! It was so uncomfortable that it’s been really hard to enjoy myself here!

The old me would’ve criticized myself and felt ashamed as though I’d “failed” at being on holiday.

Regulated me sees it as an experience that’s giving me feedback about who I am and what I need to thrive at this point in my life.

There are many things about roughing it that didn’t work for me but hands down the main thing I discovered is the need for access to fresh whole foods to feel vital and well. Sadly colonialism is alive and well through the marketing of highly processed, nutritionally dead food.

Still, I’ll look back at the photos and remember what a gorgeous paradise Fiji is 🌺 And I’ve been treated with care and respect by everyone I’ve met 🩷

What are you discovering about yourself at this moment?

07/05/2025

A friend asked me before I left to fly to Canada, how I support my nervous system while travelling.

I’ve been pondering it and some things came to mind that I wanted to share.

There are two parts to it:

One is the things I’m doing here to settle in after arriving.

Another part is the accumulated impacts of regular nervous system practice that has been building my capacity and window of tolerance over time.

For me, adjusting to the different timezone and overcoming jet lag is the biggest challenge especially since I’m wanting to have good energy for the week-long intensive we’re embarking on in a few days.

To navigate this, I’m practicing:

🌱going to sleep and getting up at the usual times

🌱getting outside in the morning to be in the natural light

🌱 finding opportunities to take shoes off and be bare foot

🌱 Finding parks and nature to spend time in

🌱 sticking close what and how much I usually eat

🌱 staying hydrated

🌱 generally keeping to day-to-day routines

While these are more circadian than nervous system health principles, they are so helpful in supporting regulation and navigating stress associated with overseas travel.

The other piece supporting regulation is the nervous system basics i’ve been practicing and integrating since beginning my nervous system healing journey.

Things like:

✅ orienting, following impulse, connecting to the environment, paying attention to posture, and resourcing.

It’s interesting to practice orienting to surroundings and feeling the connection with the seat in an aeroplane!

Continual practice of these basics has meant I’ve been able to build more and more capacity to handle stress. It’s what’s allowed me to, first, organise a solo overseas trip (something that I couldn’t have done a couple of years ago) and then travel with minimal stress and disruption to my wellbeing.

It’s felt a lot easier getting to Canada this time around than it did last September.

The jet lag is there but it’s manageable.

My energy levels are good and I’m enjoying a mixture of planning and following impulse while exploring Vancouver.

If something in this post resonated, I’d love to hear about it in the comments ⬇️

11/04/2025

For close to two decades, I struggled with social anxiety and panic that made things like going to a party or going out for coffee - ordinary experiences that most other people find fun - a painful ordeal.

I would be so hyper-focused on people’s reactions to me - micro changes in their facial expression and tone of voice - because I was on guard for the slightest hint of disapproval and rejection.

I’d leave a social situation and then process it for hours, going over and over what I’d said to see if I’d done anything “wrong” that could make people dislike me.

Often this would trigger a shame spiral leaving me feeling worthless and broken for days.

Then I discovered the work of Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory and suddenly it started to make sense.

There is a concept in Polyvagal Theory (PVT) called ‘neuroception’ and it describes the way that the nervous system is wired to scan the environment for signs of safety and threat. It is doing this constantly, outside of our conscious awareness.

As mammals, we have evolved to seek safety through connection with close others and because of this are especially sensitive to threat signals in people’s body language. Porges worked out that facial expression and tone of voice are the main ways that humans communicate these signals to people around them.

It was such a revelation because it meant that being sensitive to people’s reactions wasn’t a sign that I was crazy. It was my nervous system stuck in survival mode and constantly on the lookout for threat as a result of growing up in a highly stressful childhood environment.

Learning this piece of nervous system science was the difference between feeling crazy and broken, and being able to see that it was a pattern left over from my body’s attempt to keep me safe as a child.

It helped me to break free.

Want to learn more about how your nervous system works and its role in safety and healing? Join my newsletter by following the link in my bio.

28/03/2025

A few things I never thought I’d do before learning to heal my nervous system:

✨ hike barefoot (coz why not + it feels good + earthing)

✨ run my own coaching business

✨ be a podcast guest

✨ there are many more examples I could give

I lived in SO MUCH fear for the first forty years of my life. It kept me stuck, invisible, and miserable.

Learning how to build nervous system regulation by starting with the foundations of education and simple neurosensory exercises (a term coined by my mentor ) has been the game changer.

If you’re interested to know how these foundations could support you to experience less fear and more ease in your life, I’ll be launching a 12-week Nervous System Resilience Coaching Program very soon.

If you’d like to learn more, write ‘foundations’ in the comments and I’ll send you a DM.

07/03/2025

Healthy relationships are made up of the small things, small actions.

Most of life is the accumulation of small ordinary moments and so how we show up and how we choose to make others feel in these moments matters.

I often hear people talk about something their partner did that was hurtful and then dismiss it because it was only a small thing and so somehow irrelevant.

There’s an assumption that this person would show up with love and care for a big thing, a crisis.

No. We reveal our true selves, our true capacity to love in the small mundane moments of life.

This is where love is either generated or ignored.

We get to make these choices multiple times a day and in this way, we are all have incredible power to influence the world.

25/02/2025

I've been thinking about something that comes up a lot in nervous system health conversations: regulation.

But what does "regulation" actually mean?

It's not about trying to be zen-like calm all the time (despite what Instagram might suggest).

Rather, it's about supporting a healthy ebb and flow between states of stress (sympathetic activation) and rest (parasympathetic response).

Regulation Truth: Nervous system regulation is NOT about being calm all the time.

Not all of us had the opportunity to develop good regulation patterns as children.

When we didn't experience consistent co-regulation with caregivers, our nervous systems can get stuck in fight/flight responses, shutdown, or some combination of both.

And when we can't regularly access true rest and repair states, our bodies don't get to do the essential healing and detoxifying work they need.

This is where chronic health issues can begin.

True regulation means supporting your body to flow smoothly between activation and deactivation.

Ideally, we want to come down from stress gradually through a slow, steady "braking" of the parasympathetic branch of the nervous system.

Without this early wiring, many of us haven't learned this gentle deceleration.

Instead, our bodies slam on the brakes roughly through activating the more primitive aspect of the parasympathetic response - what gets called "shutdown" or "collapse."

We're all different, with unique nervous system patterns and needs. True regulation starts with listening to your own system and honoring what it's telling you.

Ready to start your regulation journey?

💫 Notice when you feel the urge to "keep busy" when you actually need rest
💫 Pay attention to how your body feels after stress
💫 Practice small moments of intentional rest throughout your day
💫 Remember: regulation is a practice, not a destination

What's one way you'll honor your nervous system's needs today?

11/02/2025

There, my secret’s out 😉 It feels good to share it.

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31/01/2025

I created new logo for True Nature Coaching!

I actually created it months ago and put off launching it thinking it needed to be some big deal of a process.

Then on the weekend when I had a couple of hours to spare and was in the mood for playing with design stuff, i found myself making the updates I’d thought would take ages. And that was it, it was done.

It’s an example of a big process of unlearning happening for me at the moment about what ‘work’ is meant to look and feel like.

I grew up with so much conditioning around things needing to be perfect and ‘hard work’ in order to be worthwhile. It’s been so stifling at times of taking the action needed to create my business.

I’m grateful for all the nervous system regulation I have on board thanks to SmartBody SmartMind plus the amazing support of my business coach who is inspiring a new way of doing business for sensitive souls around the world. So glad to be part of your community!

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