Zoey Ann

27/12/2025

When someone is seeking freedom,
they are responding to a longing for relative safety—
a nervous system that trusts the body, the moment, and the world it’s moving through.

When someone is seeking deeper intimacy,
they are responding to a need for internal safety first—
so connection becomes attuned, mutual, and real.

When someone is seeking clarity,
they are responding to the body’s need for enough safety
to bring the prefrontal cortex back online—
where perspective, choice, and discernment live.

When someone is seeking balance,
they are responding to the need for regulation—
access to the full, dynamic range of their primal physiology.

When someone is seeking adventure,
they are responding to a longing for presence, awe, and flow—
states that arise when safety becomes a lived baseline.

When someone is seeking authenticity
and deepening into personal power,
they are responding to the call for secure attachment—
the embodied capacity to be all of who they are without self-abandonment.

This is the foundation.
This is the gift of The Somatic Way.

It’s not about becoming someone new.
It’s about restoring the conditions that allow you to fully arrive.

Embodied.
Alive.
Courageously loving.
Deeply human.

23/12/2025

Titrated activation that follows your body’s lead is the medicine many of us are missing.

Intentional activation is a triple “threat” to that hardworking ego. The ego is the manifestation of your survival mechanisms working hard to protect you emotionally and physically by making sure you are safe and connected to your tribe — at almost any cost.

It’s the mechanism that’s working behind the scenes, keeping you away from unconscious fears and implicit memories/unconscious data that have been stored in your core operating data bank (from this timeline, a different timeline, or your bloodline).

When we uncouple activation from being a bad thing (i.e., healthy aggression), and we re-couple primal responses as natural and essential versus suppressing and overriding our natural impulses, that’s when we start to reclaim our inherent power and aliveness.

18/12/2025

Root healing requires that we stop overriding ourselves.
That we learn how to listen to what is—without collapsing into it, suppressing it, or bypassing it.

If calm is the goal, it’s important to know this:
for many nervous systems, calm is not the way through.

What we’re actually orienting toward is coherence—
not controlling the outcome,
but building the capacity to meet what’s here.

We benefit from different things at different times.
There is no single prescription.

The goal is attunement—
so the nervous system has dynamic range,
and we can respond intelligently to what’s present
rather than trying to force ourselves into a state we think we should be in.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve given my high-functioning clients permission to stop meditating… and start playing.
So often that invitation is met with a deep sigh of relief—
one less thing to manage,
and a quiet validation of why it wasn’t working.

No wonder they felt agitated, angry, or dissociated while trying to sit still.

Through The Somatic Way, you learn how to dismantle the invisible boxes you may be unconsciously living inside of—
and instead, learn to attune to yourself moment by moment.

So you can heal instead of cope.
And so your healing doesn’t happen at the expense of joy.

The waitlist is linked in bio.
Those on the waitlist will receive a private invitation to a free live experience—
an initiation for women who crave access to their wide, deep, genuine feminine power.

15/12/2025

I didn’t learn this from books alone.
I learned it by being the pattern.

By realizing that my love wasn’t the issue — my nervous system was leading without my consent.
And by learning how to hold my intensity, my emotions, and my truth without overriding myself or others.

This work didn’t make me quieter.
It made me more honest.
More powerful.
More inhabitable.

This is the medicine of The Somatic Way.

12/12/2025

Isn’t it wild how we can love someone… and still not be received the way we hoped?

Often it’s not the words — it’s the charge underneath.
Or our tone brushes up against someone’s implicit memories.
Or their disappointment touches an old wound that existed long before us.
Or our joy feels threatening to someone who never had permission to be big, bright, or expressed.
Or our love language simply doesn’t land.

This is the complexity of being human in relationship.

Because the truth is:
It’s rare to be in a relational field where…

a) Needs can be expressed in the moment — honestly, grounded, without blame.
b) The other can stay curious instead of defensive or collapsing.
c) Two nervous systems can repair and reconnect in real time.

Most people focus on fixing the problem, but that’s not where real transformation happens.

The real work is learning to navigate your own autonomic nervous system — releasing stored charge, renegotiating trauma, and building the capacity to stay anchored in yourself while listening, loving, and staying present.

Not fawning.
Not avoiding.
Not attacking.
Not abandoning yourself to keep the peace.

After years of studying the nervous system, Polyvagal Theory, and becoming a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, I distilled everything into a living practice — a framework for inner and outer coherence.

A way of being where your intentions and your impact finally match.

Because until we understand the mechanics of our humanness — our survival physiology — we’ll always feel like we have less freedom and choice than we truly do.

It’s wild how much of how we love, lead, and relate is shaped by our primal wiring.
And once you learn to work with it… everything changes.

If you’re ready to stop coping and start actually changing your relational patterns, join the waitlist for The Somatic Way.
This is where we begin the work that’s needed.

09/12/2025

A little peek at the shenanigans happening over here as I lean into Courageous Love — my guiding mission, the force that began moving through me after my brother passed, reshaping the way I live, love, and lead.

The kids had just gone down… Mike and I collapsed onto the couch, ready to take a video… but he wasn’t into it. And in that moment, I felt how perfectly life reveals itself when we let it — unpolished, unplanned, fully human.

I promised my team I’d bring higher-value content here — because I want people to experience the kind of shifts that ripple through themselves, their relationships, and the way they show up. Did I nail it?

I don’t subscribe to what’s “normal” — not here, not in love, not in life, not in how we parent or nourish or lead… and definitely not on Instagram.

If the usual scroll ever leaves you feeling flat, disheartened or drained… know that you’re not alone.

I’m here.
In the couch moments.
The shenanigans.
The tenderness.
The beauty.
The passion.

All the perfectly imperfect, deeply human pieces of a life lived wide open — a state you can cultivate through The Somatic Way.

09/12/2025