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Nervous system education, somatic tools, and holistic mental health support.

Created by therapist Hunter Elyse to help you reconnect with your body, build inner steadiness, and feel safe being fully yourself.

09/13/2025

trauma isn’t just stored in the mind
it reshapes the immune system, hormones, digestion, sleep, and energy

nervous system dysregulation is a whole-body experience
and it needs a whole-body approach

this is the foundation of somatic work
and the reason we start with awareness.

09/02/2025

✨ Big news: Enrolment is NOW OPEN for The Steady Protocol™ ✨

At Live Embodied, our mission is to make nervous system knowledge and somatic tools both practical and life-changing. After years of study and working with clients on regulation, we’re so proud to be launching our very first program.

The Steady Protocol™ is a 4-week guided journey beginning October 1, 2025.

It’s designed to help you move beyond information overload and into embodied change. Instead of just learning about the nervous system, you’ll practice shifting it, day by day, with a clear structure to support you.

Here’s what’s included:
✔️ Weekly video lessons (under 44 minutes)
✔️ A printed workbook mailed to your door
✔️ Daily prompts + short audio practices
✔️ Two live virtual classes (breathwork, somatic movement, Q&A)
✔️ A completion gift when you finish the journey

Resilience isn’t just about mindset. It begins in the body.

Enrolment is open now until September 22 at midnight. We begin October 1.

👉 Learn more and register here:

11/18/2024

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11/16/2024

3 years later & I can finally officially call myself a SEP! 🥳

It’s surreal for me to have made it and received my SEP certificate today - because I felt for so long that I couldn’t and wouldn’t make it to the finish line. But I could, and I did, and god damn — it pulled a warrior outta me.

I have grown both personally and professionally in such a huge way because of this training, and I am just as thankful for the inner growth as I am for the skills and teachings of this powerful modality. I also want to acknowledge the impact of doing this within a cohort/community of people, who have witnessed my evolution and reflected it back to me. What a beautiful gift to be held and supported in my messiness and witnessed as I expand and transform.

The learning will never end, as it truly takes decades to master these skills, however I couldn’t be more excited to continue to grow my confidence and abilities in this work. 🙏

Cheers to courage, grit, and evolution ❤️‍🔥

11/02/2024

I believe that the body is inherently wise and knows exactly how to heal itself given the right conditions. Everywhere we look, we are being sold “the cure” but the truth is, everything you need is already within you. I want to support you to reconnect to your inner knowing and resources so that you can remember what you have known all along. 💎

10/13/2024

When you experience something that overwhelms your ability to cope, it often results in you not being able to execute or complete the self-protective response that was automatically initiated within your body.

So for example: as a child, I was bit in the face by a dog. Our bodies are wired with primitive survival instincts, just like animals are. So in the split second that my body was perceiving that I was about to be bit in the face by this dog, it initiated multiple biological processes to support me in mitigating the threat via fighting it off, or running away from it (fight or flight). However, it happened too fast for me to be able to protect myself. So therefore, all of the energy my body prepared to mobilize to protect me never got the chance to go anywhere. The self-protective response never got the chance to complete. Which left this high charge energy frozen in time in my body, and my body believing that the threat was still present for years and years after, despite my mind rationally knowing this is not true.

The body has a natural automatic process of restoring its equilibrium, and when it gets interrupted, our body never gets the memo that the threat has passed and we are no longer in danger.

Somatic experiencing aims to support the body in completing the self-protective responses that never got to happen, so that the frozen in time survival energy can mobilize and the body can finally get the message that it is safe now.

10/01/2024

something that is not talked about enough, is that nervous system regulation begins with addressing sleep and nutrition.

if our body is not getting the proper nutrients and rest that it requires to be able to fulfill the basic physiological processes that keep us functioning as human beings, it is indeed threatened. and of course we are going to be stuck in survival mode!

if our body is not getting its basic needs met, it is highly unlikely that any other nervous system regulation tools/practices we add to the mix will have any lasting impact or create any significant shifts.

we need to go back to the basics and create a solid foundation from which to do this work from. a foundation that starts with questions like: how much sleep are you getting every night? is it restful? are you eating regular meals including breakfast, and are they well-balanced with carbs, fats, and sufficient protein? and if not - how might we support improvements here first?

slow is fast in nervous system regulation work. and if we are looking for deep, lasting change - we must start with the basics.

it all begins with creating the conditions for your body to feel safe and stable again.

09/26/2024

it’s no easy feat to explain the nuanced and complex modality of somatic experiencing in a few concise, easy to digest slides in an instagram post. but for simplicity’s sake - this should give you a pretty good idea.

our bodies have highly sophisticated mechanisms embedded within us to ensure our survival. when we feel threatened, a cascade of biological processes gets triggered into action automatically to support us in mitigating the threat and getting to safety. with animals, they are able to let these natural processes fully unfold and come to completion, which signals to the brain and body that the threat has passed and they can return to the rest and digest state.

however, us humans have a more evolved brain than animals that is capable of logic and reasoning and sometimes this function results in the interference of the completion of the threat response cycle. when the survival energy that was initiated in our system does not get the chance to mobilize, our brain and body never get the memo that the threat has passed and we can return to rest and digest state. this results in this survival energy continually cycling within us thinking the past threat is still present.

these emotions, sensations and impulses that were repressed need to be mobilized and expressed in order to restore balance in the body. this is where somatic experiencing comes in. when we can feel these things in a regulated and connected body, our body can release them and we can heal.

09/23/2024

did you know your nervous system is the foundation of everything you think, feel, and do? it strives for harmony, but trauma can disrupt that connection.

this is where Somatic Experiencing® comes in. by tuning into our bodily sensations, we can build interoceptive awareness — essentially, learning to recognize what’s happening inside us. this awareness helps us reclaim our sense of unity and balance, leading to greater emotional resilience and well-being.

let’s start the conversation: how do you connect with your body?

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