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Through our personalized and compassionate approach, we provide guidance, tools, and techniques to help you overcome challenges & transform your life.

05/30/2026

Nervous System Regulation

When you are met with stressful situations, your body protects you by entering into the fight-or-flight mode. During this mode, your sympathetic nervous system is activated, which causes your heart rate and blood pressure to increase, your muscles to constrict, and your digestion to take a break.

In this state, the body releases cortisol, adrenaline, noradrenaline, and a host of hormones that may decrease white blood cells. This process helps you fight or flee from any dangers that you’re encountering.

However, at the same time, you can suffer if you stay in that mode for too long, or if you are constantly in and out of fight-or-flight mode.

The point of this information is not to set an expectation of never encountering stress, but rather to explore how you can practically recover from it.

The goal is you want the body to elicit the relaxation response every time it is recovering from a stressful scenario.

It is normal and inevitable for you to experience fear, worry, anger, and a host of emotions during a pandemic. At the same time, it serves you deeply to acknowledge that you can process these emotions for your mental, emotional, and physical well-being. The key is to elicit a relaxation response and move from the sympathetic to the parasympathetic nervous system.

You want to have a flexible nervous system.

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05/29/2026

This just felt good.

Maybe because it reminded me of my wedding.

My husband is Egyptian and the music transported me back to the day we became united in front of our closest friends and family.

That was one of my favourite days ever!

Does music help transport you to a favourite memory?

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I spent years in therapy feeling more triggered after every session than before I walked in. Not because the therapists ...
05/29/2026

I spent years in therapy feeling more triggered after every session than before I walked in.

Not because the therapists weren’t skilled. But because talking about feelings I had learned not to feel kept reactivating a nervous system that had never been given safety first.

How I survived my trauma was by not feeling it.

That wasn’t failure. That was strategy.

It wasn’t until my PhD studies in philosophy of sport that my understanding completely shifted.

The body isn’t just a vehicle the mind drives. It’s intelligent. It communicates upward. It leads.

Healing was never meant to be top-down alone.

The brain and the body are in constant two-way conversation. And real healing happens in that dialogue — not in one direction alone.

That’s the foundation of everything I teach at Fitomize.

Comment SAFETY below and I’ll send you a free 9-minute audio, a gentle bottom-up experience for a nervous system that may have only ever been approached from the top

05/28/2026

Feeling depressed, stressed or anxious?

I’m seeing so many people who are not feeling the best right now.

I want to help…

* I'd like you to pause, take a deep breath and place your feet flat on the floor. Really FEEL your feet in contact with the ground underneath you.

* Now place your hands on your stomach and take 2-3 deep breaths, noticing your stomach rising and falling with each in and out breath.

* And when you feel comfortable, close your eyes.

* Now, as you keep breathing deeply into your stomach, I'd like you to breathe in for a count of 5, then hold your breath for a count of 5, and breathe out slowly for a count of 5. And keep breathing, in for 5, hold for 5, out for 5. (This is ideal if you’re stuck in sympathetic. If you’re stuck in dorsal take out the holds).

* Great. I'd like you to now slowly bring your attention back to the room, noticing the sounds around you and begin to open your eyes.

* How do you feel? Share below.

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05/28/2026

For the longest time, I thought something was wrong with me because I couldn’t relax.

I would sit down to rest and my mind would race. My body would feel restless. There was this low hum of guilt, like I should be doing something — like stillness wasn’t allowed.

What I didn’t know then was that my nervous system had spent so long in survival mode that pausing genuinely felt dangerous to it. Not dramatic. Not made up. Literally wired to stay on guard.

If that sounds familiar, I want you to know — it’s not a character flaw. It’s a pattern. And patterns can change.

Sound is one of the tools I come back to again and again. It’s gentle. It doesn’t ask you to think or perform or get it right. It just opens a door your nervous system already knows how to walk through.

This clip is two and a half minutes. Nothing fancy. Just a small invitation to pause.

And if you want to go a little deeper, I have a free nine-minute audio I created specifically for moments like this — when you want to rest but your body doesn’t know how.

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💬 Does rest feel easy for you, or does your body fight it?

05/27/2026

You don’t always need a plan

Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” ~Mandy Hale.

This is something I used to struggle with, especially during difficult times.
Regardless of the situation, I tend to overthink everything with a strong desire for reassurance that everything will be okay.

There are so many lessons I wish I had learned while I was young enough to appreciate and apply them.

The thing with wisdom, and often with life lessons in general, is that they’re learned in retrospect, long after we needed them.

The good news is that other people can benefit from our experiences and the lessons we’ve learned.

Learn to listen to your heart a little more, obey the thoughts in your head a little less and know that you don’t always need a plan.

What’s one piece of advice you wish you listened to when you were younger?

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A new study published in 2025 challenged one of the most widely read books in the trauma healing space.The Body Keeps th...
05/27/2026

A new study published in 2025 challenged one of the most widely read books in the trauma healing space.

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk.

The researchers argued that trauma isn’t stored in the body — it’s a disorder of prediction. A top-down model. The brain makes the call. The body follows.
And they’re not entirely wrong.

But it’s only half the story.

Your vagus nerve carries approximately 80% of its signals upward — from body to brain. Not downward. Your body is not just receiving instructions. It is sending them.

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio — author of Descartes’ Error — spent decades studying people who lost emotional capacity through brain damage. What he found was profound. Without the body’s emotional signals, the brain couldn’t make decisions at all.

Your body felt it first. Your brain caught up later.
That is not a top-down process.
Traditional Chinese medicine has understood this for over 2,000 years. Your organs don’t just respond to what the brain decides. They communicate back.

They hold. They signal.
The truth is healing was never one-way.
Not top-down. Not bottom-up.
Both.

Your brain and your body are in constant two-way dialogue. And healing happens in that dialogue — not in one direction alone.
This is why purely cognitive approaches have a ceiling. And why purely body-based approaches also have a ceiling.
The nervous system needs both.

Comment SAFETY below and I’ll send you a free 9-minute audio - a gentle bottom-up safety signal for your nervous system to experience exactly what this post described.

05/26/2026

Power of Smell and Touch

Did you know that your sense of smell the most significant of all the senses.

It is directly linked to your limbic system unlike the other sensory systems. The limbic system is responsible for processing emotions and memory, therefore can trigger good or bad memories or emotions. And it can also impact mood and behaviour as you can see in the video.

As for the power of touch there are studies showing that touch signals safety and trust, it soothes.
Basic warm touch calms cardiovascular stress.
It activates the body's vagus nerve, which is intimately involved with our compassionate response, and a simple touch can trigger release of oxytocin, aka “the love hormone.”

When you’re able to influence the control center (CNS) incredible things can happen!

So if you’re feeling out of sorts grab your fave lotion and rub your hands together.

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05/26/2026

Emotions don’t disappear when you ignore them.

They get stored in your body.

In your tissue. In your organs. In the places that tighten before you even know why.

And most people spend years trying to process those emotions through their mind — talking about them, understanding them, reframing them.

But your body doesn’t speak the language of insight.

It speaks the language of movement.

And not just any movement.

Movement paired with safety.

Because here’s what most people never learn: your nervous system has to feel safe before it will allow stored emotions to move. Without that safety signal — movement is just exercise. Your body goes through the motions but nothing underneath shifts.

When safety and movement come together — something different happens.

Your nervous system stops bracing.
Your tissue starts to soften.
Emotions that have been stored for years finally have somewhere to go.

Not all at once.
Not dramatically.

Just a little more space.
A little more flow.
A little more of what your body has been quietly asking for.

That’s somatic movement.

Your body’s language for everything words could never reach.

Comment SAFETY below and I’ll send you a free 9-minute audio — a gentle place to give your nervous system the safety signal it needs to start moving what it’s been holding.

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