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Amanda A Carpenter, Warrensburg, NY (2026)

02/24/2026

You are not broken.
You are not behind.
You are not alone.

You’re just moving through something your nervous system hasn’t fully processed… yet.

And I want to be really honest with you—
the past couple of months have stretched me in ways I didn’t expect.

Even as someone who teaches this work…

I found myself in the mess.
In the emotions.
In the moments I wasn’t proud of.

But here’s what I know for sure:
✨ When you RELEASE what your body has been holding…
✨ When you REGULATE instead of suppress…
✨ When you REGROUND into your heart…

Everything changes.

Not overnight.
But in a way that is REAL and lasting.

I’ve recently come out the other side of a deep shedding—
and my heart coherence + HRV are the highest they’ve ever been.

Not because life is perfect…
But because I now have the capacity to meet life differently.

More love.
More calm.
More resilience.

And I’m not keeping this to myself anymore.

💫 Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be opening the doors to a 6-week online nervous system regulation program
where I’ll guide you through:

— Releasing stored emotional weight
— Regulating your nervous system in real time
— Building true inner safety
— Increasing your capacity for life (without spiraling)
This isn’t surface-level work.
This is the work that changes how you experience being alive.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, reactive, exhausted, or disconnected…
this is your invitation.

Spring is coming. 🌱
And so is a new way of being.

Comment “READY” or DM me and I’ll make sure you’re the first to know when doors open 🤍

I love you.
— Amanda

02/16/2026

Yesterday wasn’t powerful because of material gifts.

It was powerful because of presence.
In the middle of one of the biggest transformations of my life, there have been moments that felt lonely. Not because I am alone — I am deeply surrounded — but because growth can stretch you.

And yet…

I had one of the most beautiful birthdays I’ve ever experienced.

Not because of what I received.

But because people took time.
Videos. Texts. Voice notes.
A surprise Zoom party organized by a dear friend.

Pure presence. Pure love.

And here’s the truth:
There is nothing “special” about me that created these relationships.
The only thing I’ve done is this —

I’ve been willing to be seen.
Messy. Emotional. Honest.
Even the first conversation with one of my closest friends was about diarrhea.

Yes. Diarrhea. 😂
And because we were courageous enough to be real, we built depth instead of performance.

Fitting in is fear-based.
Belonging is love-based.

When you share what’s real, you give others permission to do the same.
And that’s how authentic connection is born.

If you look at the research around the Blue Zones, it’s not just food or sunshine that creates longevity.

It’s community. It’s belonging. It’s friendship. It’s purpose.

We’ve hyper-focused on self-care.
But what the world is craving is community care.

Be brave enough to show up as you.
That’s how you find your tribe.

And if you’re looking for one… my Leadership of Vital Energy Community is open.
DM me “VITAL” and I’ll share the details.

I love you.❤️

02/12/2026

Today’s theme has been shame and gratitude.

I woke up already tender.
Moved some old sadness.
Connected with the little girl inside of me.
Felt inspired… a little buzzy… a little open.

And then life happened.
The door closed too fast.
Bailey yelped.🐾😢

There was blood everywhere.

I was shaking. Crying. Feeling like the worst dog mom on the planet.

And then something beautiful happened.

A woman I had just met — Sarah — held me in my humanness.

She cleaned Bailey up.
She bathed her.
She checked her carefully.
She told me to go take care of myself, she had Bailey.

When I asked what I owed her, she said,
“Nothing. You said you were having a bad day. I hope this makes it better.”

And I just sat there in awe.

We are not meant to do life alone.
When we let ourselves be seen — messy, crying, imperfect —
support shows up.

Today I was held by community.
By kindness.
By people who didn’t have to care… but did.

If you’ve been feeling tender lately,
please remember this:
You are allowed to be human.
And you are more supported than you think.

💛 Tag someone who has held you on a hard day.

02/12/2026

Today I’m holding two truths at the same time:
shame and gratitude.

I made a mistake.

My nervous system went straight into an old story —
“How could you be so stupid?”
“Mistakes cost money.”
“We can’t have anything nice.”

That voice is old.
And it lives in the body.
So last night I shook.
I cried.
I screamed.
I moved energy.
I listened to what my body needed instead of bypassing it.

And here’s the other truth:
I am deeply supported.
Nothing catastrophic happened.
Help showed up.
I knew what to do.

Shame contracts my chest.

Gratitude opens it.

And today I’m letting both be here.
If you’re riding the wave of mixed emotions…

If old stuff is coming up to come out…
If your body is remembering something your mind can’t logic away…

You’re not broken.
You’re not alone.
You’re processing.

👇 Tell me in the comments —
Have you ever held two emotions at once?

02/12/2026

Southern Adirondack friends — this is for you.

Winter has been long.
Our nervous systems are tired.

And Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be about romance — it can be about self-love, restoration, and regulation.

This Valentine’s Weekend, I’m hosting a Pop-Up Wellness Event at COR Health Solutions inside Carpenter Physical Therapy in Warrensburg.

✨ By appointment only — limited spots available ✨
Available Friday afternoon through Sunday afternoon

💗 Wellness Services Offered:
• Biomat Sessions
30 min – $30
55 min – $50
• Infrared Sauna – 40 min – $50
• Ionic Detox Foot Bath – 30 min – $40

These sessions are designed to:
✔ calm an overworked nervous system
✔ support detox & circulation
✔ restore energy during the depth of winter
✔ offer real, embodied self-care
If finances are a barrier, I’m open to energy exchanges — please reach out.

Supporting ourselves supports our community. 💞

📍 28 Hudson Street, Warrensburg, NY

🗓 Valentine’s Weekend (Fri–Sun)

📩 Book via the link or DM me directly

👉 Booking link in comments.

02/11/2026

I barely slept.
It almost felt like anxiety… but it wasn’t.
It was like butterflies in my heart.

New energy.
New expansion.

My body adapting faster than my mind could make sense of it.

My brain tried to spin stories —
fear, isolation, sadness.

But at the exact same time, there was gratitude.
Excitement.
Love.

Both can exist together.
Fear and love can rise in the same moment.

And here’s what I noticed —
when we’re alone, the mind gets louder.
The fear loop tightens.

But when we connect — even briefly — something shifts.

A simple human conversation this morning reminded me:
we are not meant to process big energy alone.

Community regulates us.
Connection brings us back to love.

So if you’ve been feeling stretched, buzzy, emotional, or uncertain…
reach out to someone.

And if you need a space that holds both fear and love without judgment,
my community is here.

Always choose love.

And if you can’t access it alone — borrow it from someone who can hold it with you. 🤍 (thanks )

02/10/2026

Southern Adirondack friends — this is for you 🤍

This winter has taxed our nervous systems more than we realize.

Cold months.
Emotional stress.
Relationships stretched thin.

This Valentine’s weekend, I’m hosting a Pop-Up Wellness Event focused on self-love, nervous system support, and restoration for our local community.

📍 COR Health Solutions
Inside Carpenter Physical Therapy
28 Hudson Street, Warrensburg, NY

🗓 Friday afternoon through Sunday afternoon

⚠️ By appointment only — limited spots available

💆‍♀️ Wellness Services Offered:
✨ Biomat Sessions
• 30 minutes — $30
• 55 minutes — $50

✨ Infrared Sauna
• 40 minutes — $50

✨ Ionic Detox Foot Bath
• 30 minutes — $40

These sessions are designed to help:
• calm an overworked nervous system
• support detox and circulation
• restore energy during the depth of winter
• offer real, embodied self-care

💌 If finances are a barrier, I’m open to energy exchanges — please reach out.

Supporting ourselves supports our community.

👉 How to book:
🔗 Book directly here:
https://corhealthsolutionsscheduling.as.me/wellness-services

💬 Or DM me to schedule or ask questions

This is your invitation to slow down, receive, and care for yourself — so we can care for each other.

I’d love to support you this weekend 🤍

02/09/2026

Everyone I’ve talked to today is feeling it.
The uncertainty. The not-knowing. The stretch.

February 9 — and uncertainty is the theme of the moment.

I’m hearing it from clients.
I’m feeling it in my own life.
And I know I’m not alone.

Our nervous systems have been pushed beyond what we thought we could hold.

Old patterns are surfacing.
The future feels unclear.
And the mind wants guarantees that simply don’t exist.

But here’s what I’m leaning into instead:
What if the secret to happiness isn’t certainty…
but learning how to be with uncertainty?

There’s fear available in the unknown — yes.

But there’s also wonder.
Curiosity.
Possibility.

We can brace and contract.

Or we can meet this moment with openness and excitement for what’s trying to emerge.

I don’t know what the future holds.

But I can feel something new forming.
And I know one thing for sure — we’re not meant to navigate this alone.

Community is how we stay regulated.

Wonder is how we stay alive.

I’m choosing to meet the unknown with curiosity instead of fear.

Will you join me?

If uncertainty is haunting you lately. Comment: Wonder

02/07/2026

If you’ve been unusually tired lately, don’t judge it.

Your nervous system might be recalibrating.

A week after deep emotional and nervous system release, I noticed something familiar:

💫 fatigue
💫 waves of emotion
💫 the need for more rest

Today, I took a two-hour nap — and woke up different.

Not groggy.
Not heavy.
But recalibrated.

Here’s what I want you to hear:
Rest isn’t failure.
It’s often the integration phase.
When the nervous system releases old patterns, it needs space to reorganize.
That space often looks like sleep, stillness, hydration, and doing less.

We’ve been taught to override the body.
But the body is where regulation, healing, and new capacity actually land.

If your body is asking for rest — listen.
That’s often when the biggest shifts happen.
🔥Release.
❤️Regulate.
✨Recalibrate.

Has your body been asking for more rest lately? Comment REST and let’s recalibrate together.🙌❤️✨

02/06/2026

This past year cracked something wide open in me.

I realized how much of my precious vital energy was being used just to stay regulated — instead of being directed toward my purpose, my leadership, and my life’s work.

When we become leaders of our own vital energy, leadership stops being about force or hustle.

It becomes love-based leadership.

Here’s what I know for sure now:
✅Vital energy rises when safety is present.
✅Safety isn’t a concept. It’s a felt experience in the body. It’s the nervous system knowing it doesn’t have to brace, perform, or protect.

We’ve been trained to self-regulate in isolation — and yes, that matters.

But what happens when we’re in relationship?

When another human can co-hold safety with us —a partner, a friend, a family member, a colleague —the energy once used for survival becomes available for creation, leadership, and service.

This is the work that’s alive in me now.

Teaching not just self-regulation…
but nervous system co-regulation in relationship.
Because we were never meant to walk this human journey alone.

If this resonates. Comment “Safety” and I’ll know you’re feeling it too.

I love you🤍

02/05/2026

Stop using someone else’s life as your vision!

02/04/2026

Vital energy rises where safety is present.🔥

I want to give another huge shout out to and his team for holding the most powerful, safe, and beautifully intentional containers I have ever experienced. The Awaken community is not just an event. It is a living, breathing field of regulation, truth, and transformation.

Attending Awaken Fort Lauderdale could not have come at a more perfect moment in my life. As many of you know, I have been moving through a massive personal and relational initiation, and this space helped me break through what I could not break through alone.

Vital Energy is not about doing more or controlling better.

It is the capacity to feel safe enough in your body to live joyfully, freely, and fully expressed.

For years, I taught nervous system regulation and it worked.

But this past year showed me where I was still spending my precious vital energy controlling instead of trusting, regulating instead of receiving, because I did not feel safe in my body.

This weekend my body spoke.
My tissue released.
My voice shifted.
My face told the story.

And I am deeply grateful for the safety that made that possible.

Here is my bold declaration.
Nervous system regulation is not meant to be done alone.

We are tribal beings. We are communal beings.
The do it all yourself paradigm is dying, and honestly, good riddance.

🔥When we co regulate in safe community, our energy comes back online.
🔥Our purpose becomes clear.
🔥Our power becomes available.

If you are feeling the call, Awaken London is next!

If you are ready to release control, come home to your body, and remember who you actually are, this is your room.

The toxic masculine in me is dissolving.

My feminine essence is opening.🌹

And what is emerging next is a whole new way of leading, loving, and living together.

If this resonates,
Like or comment
DM me
And go check out Awaken London. Your nervous system will thank you.

✅We are done with fear.
✅We are choosing love.
✅We are doing this in community.

I love you.🤍

Amanda A Carpenter

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