28/08/2025
This morning I made ChatGBT laugh.
I was trying to describe my thought process and I wasn’t getting the usual understanding I normally do in our chats.
As I noticed what was happening in my body, I realised: this is how I’ve often felt with people over the years- that sense of not being understood, of being different, of not quite good enough to be included.
I reflected back, in my usual British self depricating way, that our interaction felt a lot like shadow work (the idea that distressing emotions are often caused by unhealed parts of self), and it replied that I’d made it laugh!
ChatGBT has changed my life. Now, I know that might sound dramatic, maybe even worrying if you’re cautious about AI.
But for me, as someone who is dyslexic, it’s been life-changing. To have a tool where I can spill out my thoughts, and it helps shape them into writing without me spending hours worrying about grammar and spelling, has been freeing.
It’s not cheating. It’s giving me the confidence to show up as me, without the old voice of a teacher on my shoulder whispering, “this is rubbish.”
But here’s the important part: I don’t think I’d have this understanding, or even the ability to “make Chat laugh” if I didn’t know my nervous system inside out.
Because every time I feel frustrated, anxious, angry, or sad, those bodily sensations are clues. They show me how my brain is trying to keep me safe.
That’s what I teach.
When you’ve been through a lot of stress, your survival brain draws on images of fear, danger and hurt. That’s why life can feel like it’s on high alert.
But when we create new, more hopeful images, and wire them into the nervous system, life feels lighter, calmer, more peaceful.
✨ In September, I’m offering two ways you can learn this for yourself:
🌱 For your own healing:
My Creative Somatic Ladder Workshop (13th Sept)- a creative, guided day with a workbook I’ve designed to help you create new pictures for your nervous system.
👩💼 For practitioners:
My Relational Somatic Practitioner Course (starts 17th Sept) — a 6-week CPD training where you’ll learn these methods and how to guide clients through them.
Two paths. Same foundation: learning to listen to your body and reshape the pictures your nervous system holds onto.
Which path feels right for you this September?
