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Brooke Weinstein ✨ Widow | Mom of 2 👦 | OTD, ORT-L
🧠 TRAIN your nervous system
🧑‍🍼 RECONNECT with yourself ✨
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14/08/2025

Most mental health advice skips the part that matters most: your nervous system.

If your brain is stuck in fight, flight, or freeze, no amount of journaling, meditating, or “positive thinking” can land.
Your thoughts, your mood, and even your physical health are shaped by how safe your nervous system feels in the moment.

I’ve tracked my own nervous system for years, and the shift is undeniable — my mind is clearer, my body recovers faster, and my relationships feel lighter.

This is why I teach regulation first.
Because when your nervous system is supported, your mental health has a real foundation to grow on.

If you’re ready to stop living in overdrive and start feeling steady in the life you’ve worked so hard to build, comment THRIVE and I’ll DM you the details.

Xoxo,
Dr. B 💛

13/08/2025

In order to be an expert at tracking other people’s nervous systems, I have to track my own.
And I’ve done it for years.

Year after year, I can say without hesitation -- my boundaries are stronger, my regulation is steadier, and my mental health has never been better.

Because here’s the truth: your nervous system learns from you.
If you keep crossing your own boundaries, it will believe they don’t matter.
When you protect them, it will believe you are safe.

Boundaries go both ways.
When your body trusts you to hold the line, everything in your life changes. Your energy, your relationships, your capacity to enjoy the life you’re building.

If you’re ready to stop abandoning yourself, if you’re ready for boundaries that actually stick, if you’re ready for a nervous system that trusts you…
comment THRIVE and I’ll DM you the details.

Xoxo,
Dr. B 💛

The thing that carried you through was survival. Now, let your body learn a different rhythm—one where safety is the def...
13/08/2025

The thing that carried you through was survival. Now, let your body learn a different rhythm—one where safety is the default. If this resonates, pass it on.















12/08/2025

Oh yeah, I went rock climbing and lived to tell the tale ⛰️
Catch this moment (and a few more wild ones) in the latest Thrive Like a Parent podcast episode.
Road trips, mountains, and a very special 1979 Bronco named Sally Joy Ride 🛻
Comment PODCAST and I'll send you the episode!

11/08/2025

There’s almost always a fidget in my hand during my video sessions -- and that’s on purpose!

Sensory input helps my body stay focused and present.
It gives my system just enough stimulation to stay engaged without feeling overloaded.

We all have unique sensory profiles: ways our nervous systems take in, process, and respond to the world around us.
Some people seek input: movement, texture, sound.
Others prefer softer environments with less stimulation.
And many fall somewhere in between.

Fidgeting, chewing, walking, adjusting the lights, wiggling your foot: these are cues.
When you understand your sensory system, you can create support that matches what your body actually responds to best.

When you understand your sensory system, you begin to recognize what helps your body stay steady, and what pulls it into survival mode.
That’s how real regulation becomes possible.

This is one of the most practical ways to step out of burnout and into a rhythm that actually supports your nervous system.

If you’re curious about your sensory profile, or want tools that match your nervous system, comment SENSORY and I’ll DM you info about our sensory-focused courses and workshops 💛

You’ve read the books.You’ve saved the posts.You’ve sat in the car after school pickup, trying to breathe through the ov...
11/08/2025

You’ve read the books.
You’ve saved the posts.
You’ve sat in the car after school pickup, trying to breathe through the overwhelm.

You're aware that something isn't right, life isn't lifeing.
You’re exhausted from knowing better but still reacting the exact same way, every time.

This is the gap no one talks about:
When insight isn’t the issue—
but your body still doesn’t feel safe enough to do things differently.

This is what nervous system work is for.
To build capacity.
To help you pause before the spiral.
To feel choice where there used to be only reaction.

You don’t need more effort.
You need a body that believes it’s safe to exhale.

Comment READY and I’ll DM you about I support this kind of shift for parents every day 💛

10/08/2025

We've alllll seen them...
The “3-second nervous system reset”
The “hack to calm down instantly”
The “one breath that changes everything”

Quick fixes are everywhere.
And while they’re not wrong… they DEFINITELY aren't practical. And they’re not the whole picture.

Your nervous system wasn’t wired in a weekend. It won’t fully recalibrate through a single trick.
Regulation isn’t about a perfect morning routine or a viral breathwork technique.
It’s about consistency. Capacity. Context.

Real nervous system change happens when you understand your unique patterns, your real-life triggers, and what your body actually needs to feel safe: not just for a moment, but over time.

This work doesn’t have to be complicated.
But it does have to be yours.

If you’re ready for support that meets you where you are—beyond the quick fixes—comment READY and I’ll DM you about how we do this for clients every day.

09/08/2025

You show up with patience in the morning.
You get the snacks packed, the emotions managed, the to-do list moving.

But by evening, everything feels heavier.
The volume is louder.
The smallest requests feel like too much.

Your nervous system running low on capacity after a full day of doing, holding, and responding.

Evening dysregulation isn’t random -- it’s often a sign that your body has been in a high-output state for hours without real recovery.

This is how burnout builds: not all at once, but moment by moment, especially when there’s no margin.

When you start to understand your nervous system, you can start to support it—so evenings feel more grounded, connected, and manageable.

If you’re noticing this pattern and want tools that actually work in your real life, comment READY and I’ll DM you about burnout in parenthood. You deserve support that honors what your body’s been carrying all day.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

You want to show up with compassion.You want to stay grounded in the hard moments.You want connection, not conflict.But ...
09/08/2025

You want to show up with compassion.
You want to stay grounded in the hard moments.
You want connection, not conflict.

But when your nervous system shifts into protection mode, everything changes.
Your tone.
Your body language.
Your ability to hold space.

This is why regulation matters.
It helps you move from defense to presence.
From reacting to relating.
From surviving to actually feeling supported.

No one expects you to do it perfectly, but when you train your nervous system to stay present together, you both win.

Comment READY and I’ll DM you info on how we support couples and individuals inside our programs to regulate in real life, not just in theory.

08/08/2025

Is it social anxiety? Maybe....

Maybe it’s also your nervous system preparing for too much sound, too many faces, too many micro-decisions in too little time.

When your sensory system goes into overdrive, your fight-flight responses can feel a lot like anxiety.

Your body scans for safety faster than your brain can explain what’s happening. And your nervous system takes past stressors and applies them to your future, trying to prepare you for safety.

The pressure to make small talk.
The loud room.
The scratchy dress.
The worry of being too much (or not enough). All of these contribute to that sense of dread or performance anxiety around being social.

When you learn how to regulate your nervous system in real time, you stop blaming your personality for what your body is trying to manage.

Your nervous system is always speaking.
The question is: has anyone ever taught you how to listen?

Sound off in the comments, let's talk it out 💛
Xoxo, Dr. B

07/08/2025

It's fine. This is fine. I'm fine.

But really, are you??

You’re the one who remembers.
Who adjusts.
Who fills the gaps no one else sees.

And when someone offers help, you hesitate.

Hyper-independence doesn’t come from nowhere.
It comes from a body that’s been trained to handle it all because it had to.

Inside Thrive, we work with the part of you that’s always “fine.”
The part that’s tired but keeps showing up.
The part that’s ready *finally* to feel supported without guilt.

Comment THRIVE and I’ll send you the details.

This time, you don’t have to carry it all.

Xo,
Dr. B 💛

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