The short answer: Restoring regulation back to the nervous system can help, heal, and often reverse many of the chronic troubles that are usually deemed ‘genetic’ and a ‘life sentence.’

Have patience as you discover this new way of learning, healing and being, and all will be revealed.

2 Reminders:

Be Proud

If you’re just beginning to contemplate doing this work to unwire, rewire, and regulate your nervous system via the education and practices Irene’s created, please know that you are in the right place and on the healing side of history. This is not to be taken lightly. Be very proud.

Be Brave

It’s an act of bravery to consciously stop the cycle of nervous system dysregulation that’s been passed on to us from our ancestors, family, society, culture, and so on. You have much to learn and unlearn to heal at the deepest level possible. Be brave today, tomorrow, and into the future.

A lot of our chronic troubles are rooted in the DYSREGULATION of the nervous system, nestled deep in neurobiological and survival chemistry patterns that can’t be hunted down with a single remedy.

The ANS comprises the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems. To understand the distinction (and get a basic sense of how they fit the bigger picture), think of them like this:

Working directly with the nervous system has the potential to bring remarkable healing and life-changing transformations — IF we do it correctly. If not, we risk deepening dysregulation (aka: we retraumatize ourselves).

Breathwork, artificial nerve stimulation, tapping, eye movements, and more… These ‘biohacks,’ devices and techniques can be useful in certain contexts. But, alone or combined, NONE of these things can restore true and lasting regulation at the ANS level.

We are each individuals who need to carve out our own journey pending our unique history and circumstances. If you have a lot of shock trauma from accidents, you might also need to explore bodywork. If your troubles are more psychological in nature, you may actually need to do more good old fashioned therapy. If you are nutrient-deficient or metabolically unhealthy, you might need to also implement dietary/activity protocols.

However, as mammals who share the same biology, we ALL need the same foundation of nervous system regulation and capacity in order for ANY of the above to be of any real benefit to us, especially in the long-term.

Many people (and professionals) tend to start with methodologies that try to FORCE and “get” a trauma out — or, they try to ask too much of a person’s emotional capacity. With this approach, a person becomes overwhelmed and stays overwhelmed, or they shut down and numb out. We do NOT want this to happen.

Humans tend to focus on getting rid of symptoms, and while that might be important in some cases, like the pain from an acute bone fracture, a severe burn, or a bacterial infection, to name a few examples when acute medical care might be needed, back to LAW #1 to understand why this approach doesn’t work when it comes to healing the nervous system.

Not everyone is going to like how Irene teaches and helps folks heal trauma, because she’s not going to give a specific recipe or a quick fix ‘hack’ to decrease stress and lower anxiety.

But what Irene will offer you, should you choose to come our way and learn with our team, is LASTING change. You’ll learn stuff that you will have for the rest of your life… and to boot, it’ll also transform your relationships, how you parent, work, create, love, and see the world in all its goods and evils.

No biohacks or quick fixes for pesky symptoms here. Just stuff that works. Your choice. Or, as the Grail Knight told Indiana Jones: “You must choose. But choose wisely, as the true grail will bring you life, and the false grail will take it from you.”

There are three essential ingredients for nervous system health and healing:

Guidance,

Non dumbed-down education,

and Practice.

These are the holy grail when it comes to restoring nervous system regulation to our body. When put into motion, this Trifecta shifts the base level of our health so the system can HEAL.

And there’s a LOT of both out there!

If you don’t happen to be an expert who has trained for at least a handful of years at the professional somatic levels, and with the right teachers, it can be downright confusing to know what is accurate, who to believe, and what to do for your healing journey.

This is where Irene comes in. She does happen to be an expert — a nervous system specialist and somatic neuroplasticity expert, to be precise. You can find her full bragging rights here.

When you have a solid grasp on what’s at play in your biology — the theory and education — it makes a big difference in working with and shifting out of overwhelm and anxiety, also known as nervous system dysregulation. And, when we start off with the most essential pieces of education, it can make it less overwhelming and more doable.

This means also coming OUT of victim identification, doing your own work, being a mature adult (even when you might not feel like it), and while yes there were bad things, maybe generations of bad things from your ancestry, the key is not having such a strong bond to them that they continue to traumatize you.

All human babies have the same basic needs and yet most folks who come into this whole world of nervous system health and healing do so because, somewhere along the line (or along their parent’s line, or their grandparent’s line, etc.), their needs were not met. Essentially, what we want to teach you is how to get those needs met as an adult. It’s never too late!

Are you ready to begin this deep, solid work? (We hope so!)

As another great fictitious teacher, Morpheus, once said, “I can only show you the door, you’re the one who has to walk through it.”