Jennifer Mann

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

So many people think they’re “bad at feeling” or “too emotional” or “not emotional at all,” when in reality, their nervo...
05/12/2025

So many people think they’re “bad at feeling” or “too emotional” or “not emotional at all,” when in reality, their nervous system made a very intelligent decision a long time ago, it decided that feeling wasn’t safe.

If you grew up in an environment where big emotions led to conflict, overwhelm, withdrawal, or chaos, your system didn’t just adapt psychologically, it adapted biologically. It learned to shut sensations down before they reached conscious awareness.

But suppressing emotions doesn’t neutralize them. Your body still runs the chemistry. The physiology still shifts. The load still accumulates. And over time, the body begins to speak louder than the emotions you avoided.

This is why so many people experience symptoms long before they ever understand the emotional patterns underneath them because their system has been carrying a weight they were never taught how to release.

If you’ve ever wondered whether this work can actually help with your symptoms, your anxiety, your shutdown patterns, or the overwhelm you keep cycling through, I’m hosting a free workshop on December 15th where you can ask your questions directly. It’s a space to get clarity on your specific situation, understand what your system is doing, and see whether this approach is the right fit for you.

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You know that feeling when you wake up more exhausted than when you went to bed… even after “doing everything right”?Tha...
04/12/2025

You know that feeling when you wake up more exhausted than when you went to bed… even after “doing everything right”?
That isn’t laziness.
That isn’t lack of discipline.
And it definitely isn’t a mystery your body invented out of nowhere.

It makes sense you feel tired even after sleeping.
You’ve been carrying a heavy weight no one can see.

Most people think exhaustion comes from lack of rest, but for so many of you, the real weight is internal. It’s the pressure to keep it together, the emotional load you’ve been swallowing for years, the nervous system that has stayed on high alert for so long that it no longer knows how to shift into true rest. Sleep can only restore a system that feels safe. And if your brain is still scanning, monitoring, replaying, anticipating, or bracing for the next thing… your body remains stuck in a low-grade survival state all night.

That kind of fatigue is not “sleepiness.”
It’s protection.
It’s biology choosing conservation mode because you’ve lived in output mode for too long.

When your nervous system stays activated, your heart rate stays slightly elevated, your muscles stay tense, digestion slows, and inflammatory signaling increases. Your body spends the night defending, not repairing. Which is why you can sleep eight hours and still feel like you’re lifting cement blocks just to get through the day.

But your system learned this pattern, which means it can unlearn it. When you retrain your nervous system to recognize safety, your body stops burning through energy and starts restoring it. Sleep becomes restorative again. Fatigue begins to lift and your system finally exhales.

So many of us only reach for help when we are at the absolute edge. Not because we enjoy suffering, but because our surv...
03/12/2025

So many of us only reach for help when we are at the absolute edge. Not because we enjoy suffering, but because our survival patterns were built in homes, schools, and cultures where needing support felt risky.

If you grew up being praised for being independent, easy, low maintenance, the “responsible one,” your system probably learned that asking for help equals burden, conflict, or shame. Your biology adapted. It taught you to over-function, to cope silently, to keep going long after you feel done.

The problem is that your body was never designed to live that way. Humans are wired for co-regulation. Your nervous system literally stabilizes when you are with safe, responsive people. Heart rate, breath, muscle tone, and even digestion shift in the presence of support. Trying to “handle it all alone” is not strength, it is an old survival agreement your body made when there was no other option.

So of course you wait until you are exhausted. Of course you collapse before you reach out. Your system thinks it is protecting you from rejection or disappointment. But in doing so, it keeps you trapped in the same cycles of burnout, symptoms, and emotional overload.

Learning to ask for help is nervous system work. It’s teaching your body, slowly and repeatedly, that connection is safe now, and that you don’t have to wait until you fall apart to receive support.

And if you’re ready to receive real support now, today is the last day to get HEAL for 50% off.

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Your gut is not betraying you. It’s responding to everything your system has been carrying. Chronic digestive issues don...
02/12/2025

Your gut is not betraying you. It’s responding to everything your system has been carrying. Chronic digestive issues don’t begin with food, they begin with physiology. When your nervous system has spent years in patterns of pressure, emotional suppression, overthinking, or constant alertness, your gut becomes the place where all that unprocessed activation lands. It's the body trying to manage more than the mind ever allowed itself to feel.

Most people don’t realize that gut symptoms are often the physical expression of a system that has spent too long in defense mode. Before the bloating, pain, or reactivity show up, there are usually years of subtle signals like tension that never releases, difficulty relaxing after stress, emotions that stay stuck in the throat or chest, and a body that doesn’t exhale fully. The gut interprets all of this as danger. It doesn’t need a dramatic trigger, it responds to the internal climate you live in every day.

And this is why so many digestive protocols fail. You can remove every “trigger food,” take all the right supplements, and still feel stuck. Because the root issue isn’t in the gut. It's in the system that regulates the gut. Digestion depends on safety. It depends on cues from the brainstem that say, “You can rest now. You can process now.” Without that sense of safety, even the best diet won’t shift the physiology underneath.

The transformation happens when your body finally stops bracing. When your system learns to downshift instead of defend. When you reconnect with emotions you didn’t have the tools or support to feel at the time they were created. This is when the gut stops carrying the load alone and symptoms begin to settle.

If you’re ready to work at the root instead of chasing surface-level fixes, HEAL is 50% off for Cyber Monday. Start healing the patterns your gut has been expressing for years.

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When people think of chronic illness, they often imagine something sudden, a sharp turning point where the body “breaks....
01/12/2025

When people think of chronic illness, they often imagine something sudden, a sharp turning point where the body “breaks.” However, chronic symptoms are usually the cumulative result of years spent in patterns your nervous system had no choice but to adapt to. Your body learns from every moment you push through exhaustion, override discomfort, stay strong when you really need support, or live with pressure that never lets up. And it keeps you going until the cost becomes too high.

Your nervous system is designed to help you survive, not optimize. So when life repeatedly asks you to operate beyond your limits, your system reorganizes itself. It keeps you alert to avoid mistakes. It reduces energy output so you don’t burn out completely. These responses are your biology trying to keep you safe.

What we label as “chronic illness” is often the body’s long-held survival strategies finally reaching their threshold. Fatigue becomes the only way your system can enforce rest. Pain becomes the signal your body uses to slow you down. Gut issues become the result of a physiology that hasn’t felt safe enough to digest. Autoimmune patterns can reflect a system stuck in defense for far longer than it was designed to tolerate.

But the same neuroplasticity that once wired these patterns in can also wire new ones. Your nervous system can learn safety again. It can learn steadiness. It can learn to downshift instead of defend. And when these shifts happen, your symptoms have a chance to soften because your body no longer has to protect you in the same ways.

If you’re ready to work at the level where chronic illness patterns truly begin and where they can finally change, our Cyber Monday sale is 50% off HEAL.

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Chronic inflammation didn’t “just happen” to you, and I say that with so much compassion because I used to believe the s...
30/11/2025

Chronic inflammation didn’t “just happen” to you, and I say that with so much compassion because I used to believe the same thing. Before I got sick, I thought symptoms appeared "out of nowhere" one day you’re fine, the next day your body feels like it’s falling apart. But when I finally understood the physiology, and honestly, when I understood my own story, everything clicked.

Your body keeps score long before you do.
It remembers the deadlines you powered through.
The grief you swallowed because you had no space to fall apart.
The stress you called “normal.”
The people you kept caring for even when you had nothing left.
The exhaustion you brushed off as “just a busy week.”
The pressure that felt familiar because you’ve carried it since childhood.

Inflammation isn’t an event, it’s a timeline.
And if you look back, you can probably trace it.
I know I can.

Before I collapsed into CFS and chronic symptoms, my body whispered for years. I ignored the tightness in my chest, the restless sleep, the exhaustion I thought only meant I needed more coffee. I didn’t understand that my system was slowly shifting from regulation into survival, one unfinished stress cycle at a time.

Your system works the same way.

And the part that still amazes me, even after thousands of recoveries, is how quickly the body can change once it finally receives what it’s been missing, safety, space, connection, and the tools to process what has been stuck for years.

That’s why HEAL exists.
We don’t patch over symptoms.
We help you unwind the patterns your system has been carrying for a lifetime, the ones driving inflammation, fatigue, autoimmune issues, pain, migraines, anxiety, IBS, long COVID, fibromyalgia, POTS, and more.

There are 24 hours left to get our Black Friday discount on HEAL.
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There are few colleagues in the world whose word I take very seriously. Thanks friend for making common sense so viral,...
29/11/2025

There are few colleagues in the world whose word I take very seriously. Thanks friend for making common sense so viral, I couldn’t have said that phrase any better.

Chronic inflammation rarely feels gradual, but it is. Symptoms often seem to appear suddenly, yet the physiology behind them has been developing quietly in the background for years. What shows up today is the accumulated effect of a body that has been working far beyond its capacity, trying to keep you moving, functioning, and coping.

The tricky part is that the earliest shifts are subtle. You adapt to them without realizing it. Restless sleep becomes normal. Tension in your jaw or chest becomes invisible. Feeling wired and exhausted at the same time becomes “just how you are.” Your body starts operating with a slightly elevated stress load, and because it happens slowly, you acclimate to it. What feels familiar often isn’t healthy, it’s simply what your physiology has practiced the longest.

Inflammation is the body’s way of saying it can no longer keep running the same patterns without consequences. It’s not a malfunction. It’s a message. A signal that your system has been holding more emotional, mental, and physiological stress than it can safely process. When the brain stays in a state of survival, the immune system stays activated, even when no threat exists.

Healing requires more than treating individual symptoms. It’s about retraining the brain and body out of survival physiology so they can return to repair. When that happens, inflammation has nothing left to defend you from and it naturally decreases.

If you’re ready to address the deeper patterns contributing to inflammation and chronic symptoms, the HEAL Program is half off for Black Friday. The discount ends in 48 hours.

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Emotional compression doesn’t just stay emotional, it becomes biological. When your system holds onto unprocessed fear, ...
28/11/2025

Emotional compression doesn’t just stay emotional, it becomes biological. When your system holds onto unprocessed fear, grief, anger, abandonment, or overwhelm, your body doesn’t simply “move on.” Illness is a reflection of what your system has survived without resolution.

People often think emotional stress stays separate from physical health, but decades of research in psychoneuroimmunology and trauma physiology show the opposite, your emotional history becomes your physiology. This is why conditions like CFS/ME, fibromyalgia, POTS, chronic pain, autoimmune diseases, IBS, migraines, chronic tension, anxiety disorders, functional neurological disorders, long COVID, mold illness, and burnout are so often rooted in an overwhelmed nervous system, not a single physical trigger.

HEAL helps because it changes the patterns creating them. The program teaches you how to calm threat responses at the neural level, release stored emotional activation from the body, and retrain the brain so it stops responding to neutral sensations as danger.

For people with chronic fatigue, HEAL helps shift the system out of energy conservation and back into healthy metabolic function.

For those with pain, it helps deactivate hypersensitive pathways and rebuild safety around movement and sensation.

For autoimmune conditions, it helps reduce the protective overactivation that keeps the immune system inflamed.

For anxiety and panic, it helps recalibrate a brain that has learned to fire too fast, too often.

For dizziness, gut issues, and shutdown, it helps restore vagal tone and autonomic balance.

This is why so many people who “tried everything else” finally heal with nervous system retraining, it reaches the origin point of the pattern, not just the outcome.

Inside HEAL, we combine brain retraining, somatic work, polyvagal-based practices, trauma resolution, and neuroplasticity techniques so your system can finally release what it has been carrying and return to its natural state of regulation.

HEAL is 50% off for the next 48 hours.
If you’re ready to heal the emotional and physiological patterns at the root of your symptoms, comment FRIDAY and I’ll send you the link.

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.

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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.

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