Andrea Lakeman-Ford

Andrea Lakeman-Ford Helping busy, high-functioning women who feel anxious, overwhelmed or stuck regulate their nervous system naturally.
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I help women with chronic pain, IBS and exhaustion retrain their body out of survival mode so symptoms start switching off with my Safety-First Release Method™️.
🔈Comment ‘calm’ for free video to switch off your stress response I teach breathwork, somatic practices and simple daily tools that help you feel calmer, clearer and more in control — without medication or mindset tricks. I have over 1,0

00 hours of training in breathwork & somatics and am registered with the International Coaching Federation as a coach. I have helped over 100 clients to manage anxiety naturally. This is a space for women ready to stop just coping — and start truly healing.

🌿 Breath-led calm
🌿 Body-based healing

03/06/2026

If you’ve tried breathwork, supplements, meditation, therapy, nervous system tips from Instagram and you still feel stuck in stress mode, here’s why

Most nervous system advice is generic.Your body is not.

One breathing technique can calm one person instantly and make another person feel MORE anxious, dizzy or overwhelmed because their nervous system is already overloaded.

Same with supplements. Some absolutely can help support the body but if your nervous system still believes it’s unsafe, your body can keep firing symptoms underneath the surface.

Talking therapy can be incredibly valuable for understanding yourself but insight alone doesn’t automatically change the stress patterns living in the body.

Your nervous system responds to felt safety. Not just logical understanding.

That’s why inside my work we start with the body first. Small, personalised safety signals that teach YOUR nervous system it no longer has to stay braced all day long.

Comment BODY to join me in my Body Release Workshop where I’ll show you the first step I use with clients to begin regulating their nervous systems safely..

When you see me posting about my Release Method™️. 'I've tried everything, including breathwork & somatics - it won't wo...
03/06/2026

When you see me posting about my Release Method™️. 'I've tried everything, including breathwork & somatics - it won't work for me.'

The problem isn't that you've tried the wrong things, you've probably got a toolbox overflowing with techniques! The problem is that you don't have a personalised map to work with YOUR body.

48 hours only - The Stress Release Programme, reduced from £499 to £297. I'll work with your body and build you a plan that will reduce your symptoms in 3 weeks.

More details below - comment 'STRESS' for the discount code.

https://www.andrealakemanford.co.uk/the-stress-release

Most women I work with start by saying things like:“I spend every weekend recovering.”“My body aches all the time.”“I’m ...
02/06/2026

Most women I work with start by saying things like:

“I spend every weekend recovering.”
“My body aches all the time.”
“I’m exhausted before the day even starts.”
“I don’t feel like myself anymore.”

That was my client.

She was already diagnosed with chronic fatigue.
She was doing everything “right.”
Resting when she could. Managing energy carefully. Trying to keep going through work and life at the same time.

We didn’t start with intense routines or hours of healing work.
We started with helping her body feel safe again.

10 minutes a day.
Small nervous system practices.
Simple signals of safety repeated consistently enough that her body slowly stopped bracing for survival all the time.

Then the shifts started happening, not overnight but gradually enough that one day she joined a call and laughed:

“I’ve had so much energy… I cleaned the toilets.”

By week 12:
✨ The muscle aches and spasms were gone
✨ She stopped spending weekends recovering from work
✨ She could cook dinner and still have energy left for her son
✨ She finally felt like herself again

Comment METHOD and I'll send you the details about my 12 week one to one Release Method Programme where my client got these results.

29/05/2026

I asked Gerald (my chat gpt) to write me 10 lines to facilitate a conscious connected breathwork class.

This is what I got 😂
Do you think it will take off?

Candice's heart rate wasn't a heart problem. It was a nervous system stuck in threat mode. Her body had been bracing for...
28/05/2026

Candice's heart rate wasn't a heart problem. It was a nervous system stuck in threat mode. Her body had been bracing for so long it forgot how to come down. That's what chronic dysregulation looks like. And it shows up in your numbers before it shows up anywhere else.

Weeks one to four we built a regulation base. Simple, repeatable practices that gave her nervous system something it had never had. Consistency. Safety. A pattern it could trust. Nothing dramatic. Nothing that required her to revisit anything painful. Just a foundation.

Then came the TRE. Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises. The body's own built-in way to discharge stored stress. Not talking about it. Not processing it. Just releasing it. This is where everything shifted for Candice.

Then she had to have her dog put to sleep. Her heart rate crept back above 100. Her heart rate variability dropped again. This is the part most programmes miss. Life doesn't pause while you heal. The nervous system needs tools that work in real grief, not just calm conditions.

One TRE session with regulation practices either side. That's what I recommended. Not a medication change. Not a hospital visit. A single session using what her body already knew how to do. Her heart rate dropped from over 100 to the 70s the same day.

Comment 'METHOD' to find out how to join me in my 12 week one to one Release Method™️ Programme. Learn nervous system regulation tools that keep you stable, whatever life throws at you.

27/05/2026

When your nervous system is constantly in survival mode your body never gets a chance to rest and restore, which leads to gut issues, skin flare ups, feeling wired the whole time.

This is supported bridge and it’s not about stretching.
When you hold this pose for 2–3 minutes, your body feels supported, and your hips begin to open. The hips are where we often hold unreleased emotion. Your nervous system gets the message: you’re safe.

That’s how you shift out of survival mode, sending messages through the body and not thinking your way out.
💬 For 4 more ways to shift out of survival mode comment ’calm’ for my free calm reset.

I kept it together at work only showing the version of me that felt safe but I was exhausted. Not tired, exhausted and m...
26/05/2026

I kept it together at work only showing the version of me that felt safe but I was exhausted. Not tired, exhausted and my body kept sending me the bill. I just didn’t connect the two.

I was a corporate coach. Good at my job, I was even filmed doing it and the footage used to train new employees but I never let anyone see the weirder, queerer, funnier version of me that existed the second I left the building.

Every two weeks, without fail, a migraine arrived. Then IBS. Then a lost weekend in bed. I saw doctors. I tracked food. I tried everything.

What I didn’t try was understanding what I was holding on a daily basis

Then I found breathwork & somatics .
For the first time I stopped living in my head and started actually feeling what was happening in my body.
It was uncomfortable. It was also the first thing that worked.

I haven't had a migraine or an IBS flare in nearly seven years. Not because I fixed my gut or found the right medication but because I stopped asking my body to carry my squashed feelings

Now I teach these techniques to other women whose bodies are screaming at them with chronic pain.
I teach them how to let go of what they’ve been carrying and once they do that, the pain stops

Comment 'BODY’ to join me in my Body Release workshop where I’ll show you the first step to releasing what you’ve. Web carrying

25/05/2026

You finally had a pain free day. You told yourself you were turning a corner, but you might be missing the tiny signs your body sends right before a flare up

1. Jaw tight when you wake up
2. Shoulders already raised before you leave bed
3. Shallow or noisy breathing
4. Scanning a room before you enter it
5. Flinching at small sounds that wouldn’t bother anyone else
6. Needing to know the plan before you can rest
7. Never fully switching off, even on holiday

These are signs that your body still thinks you’re in danger

The good days don’t mean the bracing stopped. They mean your threshold shifted slightly. The pattern is still running underneath.

If your body is still bracing on the good days, the reset needs to happen at the level of safety, not symptom management. Comment CALM and I’ll DM you the Calm Reset Video so you have 4 easy ways to stop your body bracing.

24/05/2026

Thank you for following me.

Here are a few little clips so you can get to know me a bit more

Sending lots of love

23/05/2026

Comment RESET and I will DM you a free video showing you 4 ways to start regulating today..

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