14 Ways to Befriend Your Nervous System

A set of gentle experiments to start connecting with your body's own alert system.

As part of our 4-part exploration of The Nervous System, I now want to offer a practical map of techniques that began to make healing possible for me. These are all gentle offerings, for you to play with (or discard entirely) as it serves you in your own healing.

So let’s begin here — not with “fixing,” not with regulating our way into permanent calm (be…