Ladan Nabet Bodies in Resonance

Nervous System Resilience Sessions

When you're overwhelmed, feeling drained and burning the candle at both ends you might find yourself asking--when was the last time I felt good? Really good in my body?

Lots of people depend you and it often feels hard to down shift from all of life's demands or bounce back from stressful times. To make space for yourself. 

Sometimes you want to slow down, but your body doesn't seem to know how. Or you want to get going again and just can't muster momentum when you need it. 

Self care and managing your health feels like a full time job. And worse, it often feels depleting, too.

You need to truly replenish.

You want to stop fighting your body when you're overwhelmed or in pain.

What if you finally had a map for how to navigate the complex intersection of stress, chronic health issues and all your body has carried you through? A way to move through this terrain without feeling even more overwhelmed. And a path to restore, one step at a time. What if you had support and didn't have to go it alone?

This is the landscape of your nervous system. And its map offers the pathways to replenish your body and repattern its systems.

In 1:1 sessions, you'll have support to:

• Shift from overwhelm, fatigue and inflammation to more ease
• Repattern the body's alarm systems which fuel chronic symptoms
• Land and rest
• Help your body to stop taking on so much
• Reconnect with the sparkly, magical parts of who you really are. (Yes, they still exist.)

Working Together

Sessions take place online or in-person for 60 or 90 minutes. They deepen over time and a slow, layered consistent approach tends to be most replenishing and transformative.

In each session, we typically begin with settling and connecting with the present moment. And we'll check in about the intentions you have for the session.

Next we'll meet what unfolds for your body and what's arising in your awareness in doable pieces, pausing along the way. In person, we can include gentle touch work for support. Virtually, our awareness acts as the touch. We may also explore movement along the way.

It's an individualized process based on your particular goals, needs and unique history. Yet, in a few sessions, you'll have a sense of the possibilities.

A helpful beginning container is often meeting twice month for 3 to 4 months.

Alternatively, some clients prefer to meet weekly at first for more support or to layer in new groundwork at the beginning, and then space sessions out to once or twice a month after that. 

You're also welcome to drop in as needed if that better suits your exploration at this time.

This work can be a helpful compliment to psychotherapy or your medical care. Yet, it's important not to do too much at one time. Our bodies need time to digest our experiences. After a few sessions of working together, I'm happy to make recommendations about what frequency might be most helpful for you for your particular circumstances.

The Map of Your Nervous System

Your body's wisdom is often communicated through your experience of your "felt sense". This is your ability to notice sensations moving through your body and sense your body in space and time. This sensing (known as interoception) and how you relate with it has important connections to your physical health and overall well being. It's also is a key to healing histories of trauma and disconnection. It is the ground of embodiment.

The tools of how we meet what arises for you in sessions are drawn from both traditional and leading edge nervous system and somatic trauma resolution approaches: Alchemical Alignment Somatic Work for Trauma Resolution, Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Experiencing Principles, Systemic Constellation Principles (transgenerational and systems based healing approach), Traditional East Asian Medicine philosophy, and various energy healing practices.

When This Approach Makes the Difference

• You've been on a healing path for a while, tending to how family and childhood dynamics have impacted you
• You want to tend your body (and you also might be afraid of what you could find there)
• You hold a lot for others and deep down want a space that holds you
• You're an empath or highly sensitive person, tired of absorbing other's people's stuff
• You've had a challenging health issue, medical procedure, or birth history
• You've got at least two other active supports in your life (like trusted relationships, communities, medical providers, psychotherapist, spiritual connection, connection to nature, steady work, etc.)

Sessions, In person & Online

• Initial Session, 1h 45 min
  We'll discuss your intentions for working together and engage with a piece of somatic exploration.
  --For current acupuncture or bodywork clients, you're welcome to book a 75 or 90 min. initial session, if you prefer.
  --For Alchemical Alignment students, I offer 60 min. initial sessions. Please contact me to schedule these exceptions.
• Ongoing Sessions, 60 or 90 min