Jennifer Mann

Jennifer Mann Co-Founder of Somia, a Nervous System Healing platform and bestelling Author.

Your body is always communicating long before a symptom ever shows up. Fatigue, pain, dizziness, gut issues, migraines, ...
27/11/2025

Your body is always communicating long before a symptom ever shows up. Fatigue, pain, dizziness, gut issues, migraines, shutdown, anxiety, burnout, autoimmune flares, none of these appear suddenly, even if it feels that way. They begin as subtle shifts in your physiology that accumulate over months or years.

When life becomes overwhelming, when you push past your limits, when you suppress what you feel, when you live in constant pressure or urgency, your body adapts. It tightens. It speeds up. It shuts down. It reroutes energy from long-term health into short-term survival.

And because the body speaks in sensation instead of language, these early warning signs are easy to miss:

• shallow breathing
• jaw tightness
• irritability
• restless sleep
• bloating
• headaches
• feeling “wired but tired”
• emotional numbness
• frequent colds
• trouble settling your body

You normalize them. You push through. You get used to feeling “off.”

Eventually, the body has to speak louder. Symptoms are your system saying, “I can’t keep going the way we’ve been going.”

Illness is usually the result of a system that has been compensating for too long, operating in survival instead of regulation. Once the stress load crosses your individual threshold, whether from childhood conditioning, chronic pressure, trauma, high achieving, emotional suppression, perfectionism, or simply never getting a chance to fully recover, the body does what it’s wired to do. It forces a pause.

Your body is logical, responsive, adaptive. And when you understand the pattern, healing stops being mysterious. It becomes possible.

If you want more tools for healing chronic symptoms, and nervous system education that makes sense, follow me .

Perfectionism doesn’t just shape how you behave, it shapes how your nervous system operates. When your brain learns that...
26/11/2025

Perfectionism doesn’t just shape how you behave, it shapes how your nervous system operates. When your brain learns that being flawless keeps you safe, loved, or acceptable, it builds an internal environment where even small imperfections feel threatening. This creates a physiology that is always slightly tense and on guard even when nothing is actually wrong.

Most people assume perfectionism is about high standards. It’s not. It’s about your nervous system trying to avoid the emotional consequences you once associated with mistakes. If you grew up feeling that approval only came when you performed well, your body learned to equate worth with precision.

But this constant internal monitoring has a biological cost. Holding yourself to an impossible level of performance creates a continuous drip of stress chemistry. You live in a state of micro-activation: tight shoulders, shallow breaths, mental overanalysis, and a baseline sense of pressure that never really turns off. Eventually, your system gets tired of running a marathon at a sprinter’s pace.

This is when fatigue becomes more than just “tired.” The nervous system begins to restrict energy to preserve you.

Healing requires a different rhythm. It means teaching your system that slowing down doesn’t equal danger, that imperfection doesn’t equal rejection, and that you don’t have to use pressure as your source of motivation. When your nervous system learns to generate safety instead of adrenaline, energy stops collapsing and begins returning.

Over 12 weeks in our Nervous System Retraining Program, you’ll learn how to unwind perfectionism-driven patterns, retrain threat responses, calm the survival chemistry running your symptoms, and restore a sense of internal ease. It’s hands-on, supported, and deeply transformative, and it’s helped thousands of people recover from fatigue, pain, anxiety, and shutdown.

There are 24 hours left to join at the Early Bird rate. Comment LIVE and I’ll send you the details.

This is learned physiology, a pattern your brain and body built over years of repeated activation. And the most hopeful ...
25/11/2025

This is learned physiology, a pattern your brain and body built over years of repeated activation. And the most hopeful part of all of this is that what was learned can be unlearned.

Every time your nervous system enters fight-or-flight, through overwhelm, people-pleasing, perfectionism, overthinking, pushing through exhaustion, or unresolved emotional stress, it strengthens those neural pathways. The brain becomes faster at predicting danger, even when the moment is actually safe. That’s why anxiety can feel instant, disproportionate, or “out of nowhere.”

Your system isn’t reacting to the present, it’s reacting to familiarity and to what it has practiced.

But neuroplasticity works both ways. When you consistently give your system new experiences of safety through somatic practices, brain retraining, inner child work, and polyvagal work, you create brand new pathways. Over time, those pathways become stronger than the threat response.

That’s when anxiety stops being automatic and your body stops bracing for danger that isn’t there.
And that’s when your system finally learns ease again.

For the first time in two years, Karden and I are opening a live 12-week cohort in our Nervous System Retraining Program where we walk you step-by-step through rewiring the nervous system patterns underlying anxiety, chronic fatigue, POTS, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, chronic migraines, chronic Lyme, Long COVID, mold-related illness, IBS, autoimmune symptoms, and stress-based physiological loops.

Over 4,000 people have used this methodology to fully recover from these conditions. Not by “managing symptoms,” but by teaching their nervous systems something new, safety.

And right now, there are 24 hours left to get the Early Bird pricing for this live round.

Comment EARLY and I’ll send you the link to join us.

Chronic fatigue is not a problem of having no energy. It’s a problem of your body refusing to spend it because it no lon...
24/11/2025

Chronic fatigue is not a problem of having no energy. It’s a problem of your body refusing to spend it because it no longer believes it’s safe to do so.

When the nervous system has been in survival mode for too long, through stress, trauma, overworking, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or years of pushing through exhaustion, the brain shifts into conservation. This is a biologically intelligent response. Your system reduces energy output because your brain is trying to protect you from what it perceives as ongoing threat.

In this state, the body restricts ATP production, digestion slows, hormones shift into survival patterns, inflammation rises, and your system becomes hypersensitive to internal and external signals. You feel exhausted not because there is no fuel, but because the brain is rationing it. It will not “release” energy until it receives consistent signals of safety.

This is why rest alone doesn’t fix chronic fatigue.
This is why supplements and treatments give temporary relief but don’t reach the root.
And this is why so many people feel trapped in a cycle that makes no sense medically, but makes perfect sense neurologically.

When you retrain the brain and body to shift out of defense and back into regulation, your threat sensitivity decreases and your mitochondria return to energy production. Slowly, the brain begins to allow energy to flow again.

This is exactly the work we’ll be doing together inside HEAL Live, the first live cohort that and I have opened in two years. Over 12 weeks, we guide you step-by-step through the science, somatics, neuroplasticity, and real-time regulation practices that help your brain stop protecting you from your own life and start supporting you again.

If chronic fatigue has made you feel stuck, misunderstood, or afraid your energy will never return, this is the level of support designed for you.

Comment COHORT and I’ll send you all the details.

Notice the stability of your own embrace. Feel the warmth of your hands on your arms and the gentle, reliable pressure o...
23/11/2025

Notice the stability of your own embrace. Feel the warmth of your hands on your arms and the gentle, reliable pressure of your own support. This simple act of self-holding can help you reconnect to your body and to the safety you carry within, even on hard days. Sometimes, in the rush of taking care of everything around us, we forget that we, too, need the reassurance of gentle support.

This moment is a reminder that you’re here for yourself—steady, resilient, capable. Just as you might comfort a friend or loved one, you deserve to offer the same to yourself. Let your nervous system absorb this quiet message: You are safe, you are strong, and you’ve got this. Repeat as needed, and remember that support is always within reach—especially your own.

Let me know how this felt for you.

When the nervous system has spent years in survival mode, the brain becomes incredibly sensitive to sensory input. Thing...
22/11/2025

When the nervous system has spent years in survival mode, the brain becomes incredibly sensitive to sensory input. Things that should feel neutral, or even pleasant, can get misinterpreted as danger because the brain is operating from old threat predictions. Pressure, movement, temperature, or touch aren’t the problem. It’s the state your system is in when they happen.

The brain doesn’t respond to sensations at face value. It responds to what it believes those sensations mean. If your system has learned that certain movements once led to pain, or that temperature shifts signaled danger, or that touch was unpredictable or unsafe in the past, those pathways can stay active long after the original threat is gone. This is called threat learning, a well-established process in neuroscience where the brain “over-remembers” danger to keep you safe.

So even small inputs, bending over, a warm room, pressure on a muscle or a sudden sound, can activate the same protective response, muscle tension, dizziness, fatigue, nausea, pain, shutdown, or anxiety. The body is not malfunctioning. It’s over-protecting.

Threat learning is reversible. Through repeated experiences of safety like slow movement, grounding techniques, gentle sensory exposure, and nervous system retraining, the brain gradually updates its predictions. Sensations that once triggered alarms begin to feel neutral again. Over time, your body stops responding with emergency signals and starts responding with balance, ease, and clarity.

Your symptoms are not a sign that something is “wrong with you.” They’re a sign your brain has been working too hard to protect you.

Follow for science-based tools to help your brain reinterpret sensation, reduce overprotection, and restore safety to your body.

Pain becomes chronic because the same brain networks that process emotion, memory, and threat also process pain. When th...
21/11/2025

Pain becomes chronic because the same brain networks that process emotion, memory, and threat also process pain. When those networks are activated repeatedly, the pain pathways become louder, more sensitive, and easier to trigger.

This is why pain flares during stress, fear makes sensations sharper and overwhelm, conflict, or emotional strain can make everything hurt more.

Your nervous system is interpreting internal sensations through a protective lens. It’s trying to keep you safe. But when the threat response stays active too long, the system becomes confused, and pain becomes the default signal, even when nothing is actually wrong.

Pain that persists is real pain, but the source is not the tissue anymore, it’s the state of your nervous system.

In our HEAL Live Intensive Program we teach you how to shift your state and show your nervous system that it doesn't have to protect you by activating pain pathways anymore. Over 12 weeks, you have direct access to me and , weekly coaching calls, and a private support space where you can ask questions the moment pain, fear, or confusion show up.

We help you understand exactly what your symptoms mean, how to interrupt the threat loops that amplify pain, and how to teach your system safety again. You get step-by-step nervous system retraining, personalized guidance when sensations flare, and ongoing support to help you shift out of protection and into repair.

Pain changes when your system learns a different state.
And you do not have to figure that out alone.

If you want to work with us in real time and change your chronic pain from the root, comment LIVE and I’ll send you the details.

Autoimmune symptoms don’t appear out of nowhere. They build slowly over years of living in a body that has been running ...
20/11/2025

Autoimmune symptoms don’t appear out of nowhere. They build slowly over years of living in a body that has been running on pressure, urgency, and adrenaline for far too long. Your immune system isn’t malfunctioning, it’s responding to a nervous system that has learned to stay in defense.

Inflammation is your body’s alarm system. It is meant to activate briefly during injury, infection, or real danger. But when your brain perceives ongoing stress, it keeps releasing the chemicals that tell your immune system to stay alert. Cortisol rises, adrenaline spikes, and your immune cells receive the message, “stay ready, stay active, stay on guard.”

For high achievers, caregivers, people who push through fatigue, and anyone who has lived through long term overwhelm, this alarm system fires again and again until it becomes your baseline. And once your nervous system adapts to this level of activation, communication between your brain and immune system becomes confused. Your body begins producing inflammatory molecules even when nothing is wrong, simply because it has forgotten what safety feels like.

This is how chronic inflammation grows. This is how symptoms like joint pain, rashes, gut issues, autoimmune activation, and deep fatigue take hold. Not because your body is attacking you, but because it has been trying to protect you for years.

This is why the solution is not found in suppressing inflammation alone. It comes from teaching your nervous system that it no longer needs to live in protection. When your system exits fight or flight, stress hormones settle, immune signaling stabilizes, and inflammation naturally decreases.

Inside HEAL Live, we guide you through this process. Over twelve weeks, you learn how to retrain your brain and body out of these defense patterns, restore energy, calm inflammation, and rebuild resilience in a way that supports autoimmune symptoms at their root.

There are still Early Bird spots available.
Comment LIVE to claim your spot now!

Chronic symptoms heal when the nervous system learns that it no longer needs to protect you.That is the foundation of re...
19/11/2025

Chronic symptoms heal when the nervous system learns that it no longer needs to protect you.
That is the foundation of recovery.

When your system has spent years in pressure, pushing, perfectionism, emotional suppression, or hypervigilance, your brain shifts into long-term defense mode, pain sensitivity increases, inflammation rises, digestion slows, and energy production drops because the body believes it must conserve resources to keep you safe.

So how do you heal?
You heal by changing the signals your nervous system receives.

When your system begins to receive consistent cues of safety, it slowly shuts off the protective pathways that keep symptoms alive. Muscles release the tension they’ve been holding automatically , pain pathways quiet, adrenaline and cortisol settle, inflammation decreases, and digestion and energy return because the body no longer believes it needs to brace, guard, or conserve.

Healing happens when you:
👉 teach your brain that the threat has passed
👉 regulate your stress response
👉 interrupt looping fear or symptom-focused patterns
👉 restore internal safety through body-based practices
👉 shift from high-cost energy into sustainable energy
👉 and retrain the system to trust again

This is exactly what we guide you through inside HEAL Live.
For 12 weeks, Karden and I work with you in real time to retrain your nervous system out of survival mode. You get:
👉 12 live coaching calls
👉 step-by-step brain and somatic retraining
👉 24/7 private support for flare-ups
👉 direct feedback so you always know what to do
👉 lifetime access to the full HEAL program

If you want support to heal your chronic symptoms at the root, there is still one Early Bird spot left, with special pricing for a limited time.

Comment LIVE and I’ll send you the link to join us.

Your cells aren’t designed to run on emergency energy for long stretches of time. In short bursts, this high-cost fuel g...
18/11/2025

Your cells aren’t designed to run on emergency energy for long stretches of time. In short bursts, this high-cost fuel gives you a temporary edge, the ability to push through, focus, “power on,” and keep going when you feel overwhelmed or depleted. But when your nervous system is stuck in survival mode, your mitochondria have no choice but to keep producing this emergency fuel day after day.

That pattern becomes your baseline. Your body starts pulling energy from a system that was only ever meant for danger. Your cortisol stays elevated and digestion slows. Your muscles stay tense. Your brain becomes hyper-alert. And eventually, your mitochondria begin to conserve energy instead of creating it, because the cost of keeping you “on” becomes too high.

This is the physiology behind chronic fatigue. This is the biology behind why you crash, why your symptoms flare, and why you feel wired and exhausted at the same time. It’s your body protecting you from a pace and pressure it can no longer sustain.

But here’s the part most people never hear, your mitochondria can switch back. Your nervous system can relearn safety. Your body can shift from high-cost, stress-fueled energy into steady, regulated, sustainable energy again. This is not a mindset change. It’s a biological shift that happens when your system exits survival mode.

This is what we teach inside HEAL Live. For twelve weeks, I guide you through the framework that helped me recover from CFS, ME, fibromyalgia, post viral syndrome, POTS, and the long list of symptoms that once ruled my life. You learn how to interrupt the stress loops draining your energy, how to regulate your nervous system, and how to create the internal conditions your mitochondria need to produce real, lasting energy again.

You don’t have to live in survival mode. You don’t have to stay in the cycle of crashing and recovering. And right now, there are still 2 Early Bird spots left if you want to join us.

If you’re ready to work with me and shift your body back into repair and sustainable energy, comment EARLY and I’ll send you the details.

For years, I lived in a body that felt strong, capable, and reliable. I was teaching yoga classes, putting myself throug...
18/11/2025

For years, I lived in a body that felt strong, capable, and reliable. I was teaching yoga classes, putting myself through biomedical sciences, and seeing physio clients every day. My life was full, busy, structured and I thought I understood the body.

Then one morning in the studio, I felt something shift in my neck. Not a big injury, just a click, but it was enough to make me think I should stop for the day and go home. The next day I woke up with flu like symptoms that never went away. Within weeks, I went from someone who never stopped moving to someone who could barely sit up.

I became completely bedbound. My diagnoses multiplied: CFS, ME, fibromyalgia, post viral syndrome, POTS, and a long list of symptoms that made no sense and terrified me. I was told that my only option was symptom management. My body felt foreign. My life became unrecognizable. I was exactly where you might be right now, scared, confused, exhausted, and desperate for answers.

When I discovered the science of the nervous system, I learned that my symptoms weren’t random or hopeless. I began working directly with my nervous system and I began to heal what I was told was uncurable. Slowly at first, then in ways that felt unbelievable. I recovered fully. Today I live in Bali with my husband and our two boys, something I never imagined would be possible.

This is why I teach this work. Because I know the fear. I know the confusion. And I know first-hand that healing is possible.

If you want to work with me, this is your chance. HEAL Live is a 12 week experience where I guide you step by step through the exact framework that helped me recover. You get weekly live coaching with me and Karden, a private support circle for questions as soon as they come up, lifetime access to the full HEAL Program, and practices that help you understand what your body is doing and how to shift it.

If you are struggling with:
👉 POTS
👉 CFS/ME
👉 anxiety
👉 IBS/IBD
👉 Fibromyalgia
👉 Autoimmune conditions
👉 Chronic Lyme
👉 Mold
👉 Long COVID
👉 Or unexplained chronic symptoms...

I can help.

Healing is possible, and I would love to support you through it.

Comment EARLY and I’ll send you the details.

Most people search the body for answers with blood tests, scans, supplements and flare protocols, but the real story beg...
17/11/2025

Most people search the body for answers with blood tests, scans, supplements and flare protocols, but the real story begins in the nervous system. When the brain has been running threat responses for years, the body simply follows its lead. Symptoms become patterned outputs of a system that believes it’s still under threat, even when your life looks calm on the surface.

But you can’t think or “positive mindset” your way out of a physiological threat state. The brain needs new experiences, not new thoughts, to update its predictions. That’s why you can understand everything logically and still feel stuck. Until your nervous system feels safe, your symptoms stay switched on.

After two years of being closed, Karden and I are opening a small live cohort so we can personally guide you through the full process of retraining your nervous system out of the survival patterns that keep your symptoms alive.

In HEAL Live, we walk you step-by-step through:
• breaking old neural threat loops
• rewiring conditioned pain, fatigue, and anxiety pathways
• learning somatic tools that restore regulation through the body
• building safety into your system so symptoms stop being “necessary”
• understanding your patterns with clarity instead of fear
• shifting from survival energy to sustainable energy

You get weekly live sessions with us, real-time coaching, tailored guidance, and a community of people who finally understand what you’re going through. We don’t just give you tools, we help you apply them, troubleshoot them, and integrate them so your physiology actually changes.

If your symptoms haven’t improved despite trying everything, this is likely the missing piece, changing the brain patterns driving the physiology.

Only 25 spots.
Early Bird is live.

Comment EARLY and I’ll send you the details.

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