Coach Alyssa Chang

05/15/2026

Stiffness doesn’t just live in your muscles. It lives in a nervous system too on guard to let go of that tension.

So the answer isn’t to push through it. It’s to teach your body that it’s safe to release.

These three brain-based drills do exactly that:

🌻 The Sunflower - a slow, intentional spinal movement that wakes up every joint from your hips to your neck. Your spine is packed with sensory receptors, and moving like this sends one clear message to your brain: we’re safe here.

⭕ Hip circles - big, slow and deliberate. Your hips are one of the most information-rich areas in your body. This is a direct line to your nervous system, turning the tension dial down with every circle.

🔄 Shoulder circles - bringing movement and circulation back into the shoulders, neck and upper back. Most of us are holding a protective brace up here without even realizing it.

This is how you tell your body the threat has passed.

Try one. Try all three. Just notice what shifts. 🤍

05/11/2026

You finally get on top of one thing, and something else shows up. It can feel like your body is working against you.

Like you’re chasing something you’ll never fully catch.

But what if the pain moving wasn’t a sign that something is more wrong…but a sign that your body is still trying to be heard?

💡Here’s what I mean:

Pain, whether physical or emotional, is a signal.

And when we address the symptom without addressing what’s underneath it, that signal doesn’t just disappear. It finds a new way to surface.

This is sometimes called symptom substitution, and it shows up more than most people realize.

Why this happens:

✅ The nervous system is still in a state of threat - When your system is stuck in survival mode, it’s constantly scanning for danger. Resolving one area of pain doesn’t automatically shift that state. The body keeps expressing it, just somewhere new.

✅ The original message hasn’t been received yet- Pain is often the body’s loudest attempt at communication. Stress, unprocessed emotion, unmet needs, these don’t disappear when the symptom does. They look for another outlet.

✅ Patterns run deeper than symptoms- If the underlying pattern, the bracing, the holding, the chronic tension your nervous system has learned, hasn’t changed, the expression of it will keep finding new places to show up.

This isn’t your body failing you. This is your body being extraordinarily persistent in trying to get your attention.

So instead of asking “why won’t this just go away”, try asking “what hasn’t been fully heard yet?”

That shift in question can change everything about how you approach your own healing.

You’re not broken. You’re not doing it wrong. You’re just being invited to listen at a deeper level than the symptom.

05/05/2026

Same moment. Two completely different nervous systems.

Have you ever left a conversation replaying everything you said wondering if it landed wrong?

This isn’t simply overthinking.

This is what happens when your nervous system has learned that good things come with conditions. That being too much has a cost. That love is something you earn and can lose.

It builds a filter. A threat filter. One that was designed to protect you.

And it’s really good at its job.

But sometimes, it’s working from old information. It scans a perfectly good moment and finds danger that isn’t there. It turns a smile and a silence into evidence that something went wrong.

And it feels completely real. It feels like fact.

Just a reminder that your brain might just be running from an old script.

One of the gentlest things you can do is start noticing when the filter is on. Not to fight it. Not to shame it. Just to pause and ask: is this the moment talking? Or is this the filter?

Because that question, right there, is where the old script starts to change.

05/04/2026

Last year, Cookie Plant Guy decided to renovate a part of his home.

I jokingly said: “are you building me a studio?”

He smiled, but didn’t say much.

So naturally, I left feeling like I’d overstepped. “Oof, I hope that wasn’t presumptuous or selfish.”

Hello, anxiety🙋🏻‍♀️

I found out months later that he left that conversation overwhelmed with happiness, because I had pictured myself one day moving in. One day building something from this place we’d share.

Now, a little over a year later, we’re moved in, and has been open ever since.

This space has held so much. Clients getting out of pain. Improving their golf swings. Healing from surgeries, post-concussion, chronic fatigue, long COVID. Developing toolkits to manage trauma and triggers.

And quietly…it’s also held me.

For over 10 years I told myself I wanted a space like this. Connected to home. Tucked away somewhere quiet. Somewhere people could come and just focus on themselves. I couldn’t find it anywhere, so we built it instead.

The Regulation Studio is built with the heart of a little girl still learning she deserves this, and the hands of a partner who never doubted it.

To everyone who has been here watching this unfold, thank you. You’ve been part of this too🤍.

05/01/2026

When your body won’t settle, the last thing it needs is more willpower.

It needs a signal. Something it can actually feel.

These are three tools I come back to when my nervous system is buzzing and I’m crunched on time.

🧠 Experiment with 30 seconds of each for 1-3 rounds.

👣 Tippy toe squats: Rise up onto your toes, then exhale as you drop down into a squat. That downward movement paired with the exhale can help your brain shift back into your body.

💪🏽 Arm swings Swing your arms open wide, then let them wrap around your body as you hug in. This is sensory input, it helps your brain feel oriented and present.

👀Eye push ups: Hold something in front of you and slowly bring it toward your nose and then slowly push it back out. Simple, strange, and surprisingly effective.

The great thing is none of these require a gym, a mat, or a free hour.

Just a body that’s ready to feel a little safer.

📌Save this for the next time you need it a little regulation, but don’t have a lot of time.

04/27/2026

If your brain can’t switch off the moment you stop, this is for you.

What looks like productivity from the outside can actually be a nervous system that never learned it was safe to rest.

This isn’t about doing less. It’s about helping your body understand that stillness isn’t a threat.

Here are some gentle first steps:

✅ Notice without changing anything Before you try to fix it, just start noticing. When does the spiral kick in? What were you doing right before your brain got loud? Awareness is the first step to rewiring, your nervous system can’t change what it can’t see.

✅ Give your body a cue that it’s safe This can be as simple as three slow exhales when you sit down. Or placing your feet flat on the floor and feeling the ground beneath you. These signals can help communicate to your nervous system that the threat has passed.

✅ Practice “doing nothing” in tiny doses Not meditation. Not a full rest day. Just 60 seconds of sitting without a task. No phone. No podcast. Just you. It will feel uncomfortable at first, that discomfort is the pattern showing itself. That’s actually a good sign.

✅ Stop rewarding yourself only when you perform Notice how often you feel okay about yourself after you’ve been productive. Start finding one moment each day where you let yourself just exist, without earning it.

This is slow work. But it’s the most important work.

And you don’t have to do it perfectly. You just have to start✨

01/18/2023

https://youtu.be/kXT_Or7MJbQ

From figure competitor to struggling with metabolic damage to a healing my body with neuroscience.

Here's a sneak peak of the adaptations I made to help my body move out of starvation mode.

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From figure competitor to struggling with metabolic damage to a healing my body with neuroscience.This week, I’ll be sharing more about my own healing journe...

05/16/2020

Happy Saturday Everyone!

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I will be speaking on my background in neuroscience and it's connection to body trust, self compassion and finally feeling on the same team as your body.
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Hey there, I'm Ash! I am an inspirational speaker, mentor and movement leader dedicated to empowering creative women to bring their gifts to the world with confidence.