Get to Know All Three Versions of You — and Learn How to Return to Your Calm, Connected Self
You know those days when everything just clicks — you feel grounded, creative, connected, and life flows with ease.
And then there are the other days… when your energy crashes, your motivation disappears, or your mind won’t stop spiraling.
It’s not random.
It’s your nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do — protect you.
You’re not just one version of yourself — you’re three.
Depending on your nervous system state, you think, feel, and act differently:
Ventral — calm, connected, and authentic
Sympathetic — stressed, activated, and reactive
Dorsal — shut down, withdrawn, or disconnected
This guide helps you recognize your patterns, understand how your body moves between safety, stress, and shutdown, and gives you practical tools to find your way back to your peaceful, creative, grounded self again.
Introducing your Personal Nervous System Map
A Personal Guide to Understand Your Inner World and Begin Your Journey Back to Flow
Knowledge is power, especially when it comes to your nervous system. When you understand how you show up in each state — the thoughts, emotions, and sensations that come with them — you can finally meet yourself with compassion and begin to influence your mood and reactions.
This gentle, nervous system roadmap is like turning on a light inside your system — that “aha” moment where everything starts to click. Through 4 easy steps, you’ll begin to see why you think, feel, and react the way you do, and how to guide yourself back toward safety — your calm, connected, most authentic self.
Inside, you’ll map your own autonomic ladder, explore meditations that reveal your patterns in each state, and identify simple tools to help you return to balance. This awareness becomes your catalyst — the beginning of your journey back to flow, where clarity, creativity, and confidence naturally return.
What You’ll Find Inside:
Know Your Nervous System is part workbook, part audio experience — designed to help you see, feel, and begin to shift your inner world through:
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Nervous System 101 - Audio Lesson
An empowering, beginner-friendly education on how your nervous system controls your mood—and how to move toward calm connection.
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State Discovery Meditations
Gentle audio sessions to notice your thoughts, emotions, and body cues in each vagal state—so you can spot them faster in daily life.
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Personal Ladder Mapping Chart
A printable, fill-in template to chart your own cues, triggers, and “return-to-calm” steps. It becomes your custom guide to navigate stress in real time.
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Regulation Exercise List
A curated list of proven resources and techniques to shift your state from stressed or shutdown to calm and connected — anytime, anywhere.
The 4-Step Process to Know Your Nervous System
Through this guide, you’ll understand your patterns, meet each version of yourself with compassion, and gain the tools to shift back to your calm, authentic self — taking back the control center of your mood, energy, and life.
Step 1: Meet Your Dorsal Self (Shutdown)
Discover what shutdown looks and feels like for you — the emotions, body cues, and thoughts that arise when your system powers down for protection.
Step 2: Meet Your Sympathetic Self (Fight or Flight)
Notice your personal signs of stress and urgency, so you can catch your activated state before it takes over.
Step 3: Meet Your Ventral Self (Calm & Connected)
Reconnect with who you are when you feel grounded, creative, and alive — your most authentic self.
Step 4: Map & Regulate
Fill out your personalized Autonomic Ladder, identify your cues, and choose simple regulation tools to help you climb back to calm faster.
If you’ve ever felt like your emotions run the show… you’re not alone.
For years, I thought I was just “too emotional” or “unmotivated.” I’d swing between high-energy hustle and total shutdown — and couldn’t figure out why. Once I learned about the nervous system, everything changed.
I realized that my moods weren’t random. They were protective states — my body doing its best to keep me safe. And when I finally learned how to read those states, I also learned how to shift them.
Now, I feel like the operator of my own control center — not at the mercy of it. And that’s what I want for you.
Because understanding your nervous system isn’t just about science — it’s about freedom.
Freedom to catch yourself when you’re spiraling. Freedom to meet yourself with compassion instead of shame. Freedom to come home to that grounded, peaceful, inspired version of you — again and again.
Let’s retrain your system to make flow your home base.
You don’t need to become someone new — you just need to reconnect with the calm, creative person you already are.
You ready?
With love,
Courtney
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“I used to feel powerless when waves of angst or zero motivation hit, like my emotions were running the show. Understanding that it was just my nervous system trying to protect me changed everything. Now, with the tools in this guide, I can meet myself with compassion and gently shift back to a calm, empowered state whenever those feelings arise.”
Millie R
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“This guide gave me language and awareness I didn’t even know I was missing. Now I can spot when I’m spiraling into my all too familiar stress state and intentionally shift back into calm. It’s like finally having the instruction manual for my own mood. If you’re human, then this information will change your life, really!”
Elisabeth C
This was made just for you…
You feel like your emotions have a mind of their own — calm one day, anxious or shut down the next.
You’re frustrated by your “lack of motivation” or how hard it feels to get out of a funk.
You’re tired of feeling hijacked by your moods and just want to understand why.
You crave more peace, presence, and creativity — without forcing or faking it.
You want practical tools to help you shift back to your calm, connected, authentic self.
In case you’re wondering…
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Not at all! Everything is explained simply and intuitively. The guide is designed for anyone who wants to feel more in control of their emotions, energy, and reactions — no prior knowledge required.
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This isn’t just about calming down — it’s about understanding why you feel the way you do, and giving you the map and tools to shift your state back to your calm, authentic self. You’ll come away actually recognizing your own nervous system cues and knowing how to respond to them.
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Originally, it was designed for creatives — but the process works for anyone! Whether you’re a parent, leader, or just someone who wants to feel more grounded and alive, you’ll find it immensely helpful!
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You can move through it in about 1-2 hours — or take it slower if you want to really reflect and write. It doesn’t have to be done in one sitting.
The regulation exercises are designed to be tools you return to again and again.
