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I help clients release trauma, grief, anxiety, burnout + chronic symptoms through nervous system healing, EFT, somatic tools + neuroscience.
🌱Work with me 1:1 & through my 12 week Nervous System Reset Program - Jan 2026

➡️ https://linktr.ee/sarahkmasson

18/11/2025

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Have you ever noticed your body feels “on edge” before your mind has even formed a thought?
That’s because the body speaks first.

Your nervous system constantly scans your environment, your inner world, and your relationships through neuroception — the unconscious process of asking:

👉“Am I safe, or am I in danger?”

Before you’re even aware something has changed, your nervous system has already shifted you into a state:

• Ventral vagal (regulated + connected)

Your body feels grounded, your breath steadier, and your mind naturally creates clearer, calmer stories.

• Sympathetic (fight/flight)

Your heart rate rises, breath tightens, and everything feels urgent.
Your thoughts become fast, fear-based, or future-focused.

• Dorsal vagal (shutdown)

You feel flat, distant, or overwhelmed.
Your mind matches the state with thoughts of hopelessness or disconnection.

👉Your state comes first.
👉Your thoughts come second.

So when you suddenly feel “on edge,” it isn’t random — your body has detected something long before your conscious mind registers it.

This is why somatic tools matter.
When you orient to four neutral things around you and rest your gaze for 10 seconds each, you’re signalling:

“We are safe right now.”🫶

Your vagal brake activates, your breath softens, and your mind stops scanning for threat.
Shift the state → the story changes.

This isn’t mindset work — it’s the biology of safety.

If you want to understand why your body reacts the way it does, and how to bring yourself back into safety, the next round of my Nervous System Reset Program begins in January.

Early Bird ends 12 December. Spaces are limited.

With love,
Sarah x

16/11/2025

Comment UNDERSTAND to learn, on a deeper level, what’s happening inside your nervous system — especially if you’re feeling dysregulated or overwhelmed.

When a child grows up without consistent emotional safety or attunement, the nervous system adapts.
This is developmental trauma — not a memory of what happened, but the patterns your body learned trying to cope without enough support.

These early adaptations often show up in adulthood as:
• over-responsibility
• people-pleasing
• hyper-independence
• difficulty resting
• shame around having needs
• feeling “on alert” even when nothing is wrong
• emotional numbness or shutdown

These aren’t personality traits.
They’re survival strategies your body hasn’t yet had enough safety to update.

The good news is that the nervous system can learn a different experience — slowly, gently, through repeated moments of safety, attunement and support. Over time, your system begins to understand:

“I don’t have to survive like this anymore.”

I hope this helps.
If you feel you need deeper support in unravelling trauma or nervous system dysregulation, please feel free to reach out.

With love,
Sarah x

14/11/2025

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So much of healing isn’t about “fixing” ourselves —
it’s about befriending ourselves.
Befriending our patterns, our responses, and most of all…
our nervous system.

Your body is always doing something for you through the states it moves through:
Ventral: safety + connection
Sympathetic: mobilisation + fight/flight activation
Dorsal: shutdown + numbness as protection

And when we can recognise the state we’re in, everything changes.

Because if we don’t understand where our body is,
how can we expect it to return to regulation?

Tools only begin to land when we understand the survival response beneath the moment.
When we know whether we’re in fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown,
we can give the body what it actually needs to feel safe again.

And safety — not pressure or “doing more” —
is what brings us back into regulation.

This is why state-awareness is the foundation of nervous system healing.
When we know our state, we finally know our way home.

And this is exactly what we do inside the Nervous System Reset Programme.
This is the formula.
This is why it works.
Next program starts in January and doors are open now. Limited spaces in each program. ❤️

With Love
Sarah xx

11/11/2025

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If you’re living in stress, uncertainty, or danger —
whether that’s an abusive relationship, being bullied, growing up around conflict, or constant emotional criticism, your nervous system will keep scanning for threat.
That’s not you being weak.
That’s your body protecting you.

In those conditions, full rewiring isn’t possible yet —
because your system is doing exactly what it’s meant to do: stay alert until it’s truly safe.

But you can still create micro-moments of regulation that help your body come into the present moment.
And in that moment — if there’s no active threat — the body might briefly access calm or ventral vagal connection.

Small practices like:
✨ Orientation
✨ EFT tapping
✨ Legs up the wall
✨ Humming
✨ Nature and sound

These moments don’t erase the danger,
but they can reduce overwhelm, soften the load,
and teach your body what safety feels like, so when safety is consistent, your system already knows the pathway home.

Save this for when you need the reminder 🤍
With love, always,
Sarah x

09/11/2025

Comment UNDERSTAND for my free guide to gaining a deeper awareness of what’s happening inside your inner world — and how to begin creating real safety in your body.🫶

👉 Have you ever felt anxious for “no reason”?
That flutter in your chest.
The sudden alertness.
The mind racing to find an explanation that doesn’t exist.

You’re not broken — your body is communicating.
And the language it’s speaking is called neuroception.

🧠 Neuroception is the subconscious process your nervous system uses to scan for cues of safety or threat.
It happens every second, below conscious awareness.
Your body is constantly asking:
“Am I safe? Or do I need to protect myself?”

It listens to what’s happening inside you — your heartbeat, breath, muscle tone, and gut sensations (this is your interoception).

It tracks what’s happening around you — sound, movement, light, facial expressions, tone of voice.
And it senses the space between you and others — the energy of connection, trust, or tension that lives in your relationships.

When any of these pathways misinterpret cues, the body activates protection even when there’s no real danger.

That’s what we experience as anxiety for no reason.🥹

This isn’t a mindset issue, it’s a state issue.
Anxiety is a physiological pattern of dysregulation, not a flaw in your thinking.

Your body has simply learned to associate certain internal sensations or environmental signals with unsafety.

Healing means gently showing it something new:
That this moment is safe.
That it’s okay to soften.
That connection can exist without danger.

🌿 Nervous system regulation begins when we build awareness of these hidden patterns, the way our inner world, outer environment, and relationships shape our sense of safety.

Through somatic tools, breath, movement, and micro-moments of connection, we can re-educate the nervous system to return to ventral safety and calm.

This is how we rewire anxiety, trauma responses, and chronic stress, not by trying to think differently, but by teaching the body to feel differently.

With Love
Sarah xx

07/11/2025

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👉Your brain and body are always working together to keep you safe — constantly predicting what’s about to happen and sensing whether it feels safe or dangerous.

This process happens both ways.
🧠 The brain predicts what it expects to feel.
💚 The body sends messages back — sensations, feelings, and signals — confirming or challenging that prediction.

This is called predictive coding, and it’s how your system learns from experience. When the prediction and the reality don’t match, a prediction error occurs, and that’s when the brain can update its model.

You can see this in physical healing:
If you fall and break your ankle, your brain learns “walking = pain.” Even after the ankle heals, it may still predict danger and tighten muscles to protect you, until new, safe experiences of movement show it that it’s okay again.

The same thing happens in trauma.
When something overwhelming happens, the brain learns “the world isn’t safe.”
Those protective codes don’t automatically update with time, they update through lived experiences of safety, connection, and calm.

That’s why change can feel uncomfortable at first, it doesn’t match the brain’s familiar prediction.
But with repetition and gentle pacing, your system learns:
“This feels different… and I’m okay.”

💫 Predictive codes are created at the moment of trauma — and rewritten through the experience of healing.
Your body learns through experience, not logic.

Hope this helps and if you would like to help your body heal at a deeper level join the waitlist for my next Nervous System Reset Program that starts in January🫶

With love always
Sarah xx

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