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The Nourished Nervous System
An exploration of stress, the nervous system, and resilience through the lenses of Ayurveda, Somatic Practice, Herbs, Neural Plasticity and much more!
The Nourished Nervous System
Take the Stairs: A Dream, a Teaching & the Medicine of Simple
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Here in Maine we're still tiptoeing into spring — warm days that feel like a promise, then snow flurries and the wood stove again. It's been a season of letting go and being with what is, which turns out to be exactly what this episode is about.
A few weeks ago I had a dream. In it, I was on top of a crumbling Lego platform, trying to hold everything together, piece by piece — while a perfectly good staircase sat right there, unused. When I woke up, I couldn't stop thinking about what it meant. This episode is me unpacking that.
Two teachings from one dream:
The first is about taking the stairs — the simple, unsexy, already-available thing — instead of endlessly complicating our way toward health. We live in a world that constantly tells us to do more, take this supplement, follow this protocol, optimize this. And in all that noise, we miss the stairs. The morning sunlight. The consistent bedtime. The seasonal meal. The thing that actually works, hiding in plain sight.
The second teaching is about foundation. It doesn't matter how hard you work at the top of the platform if the foundation is shaky. Whether we're talking about hormonal health, autoimmune disease, perimenopause, or just a general sense of depletion — the small, slow, foundational steps are what make everything else possible. HRT might help. Supplements might help. But if we're not also looking at sleep, stress, diet, and the root causes underneath, we're still just patching the top of a crumbling platform.
And perhaps most importantly: how we talk to ourselves in this process matters enormously. When we notice we've been making choices that aren't serving us, do we take our own hand like a loving friend and say look, there are stairs, we can do this — or do we berate ourselves for not seeing them sooner?
Free resource mentioned: The Nourished for Resilience Workbook — a simple pie chart to help you see where you feel nourished and where you don't, and find your starting place. Also includes questions for contemplation and a habit tracker.
Resources:
Free Masterclass: The Alchemy of the Perimenopause Portal
Ayurvedic Dosha Quick Reference Guide
Nourished For Resilience Workbook
Find me at www.nourishednervoussystem.com
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