Heal Your Nervous System

The 5–Stage Plan to Reverse Nervous System Dysregulation

By: Linnea Passaler

Narrated by: Sara Sheckells, Linnea Passaler

Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

Relieve anxiety, burnout, feelings of overwhelm, and chronic physical symptoms by healing your dysregulated nervous system with this 5-stage roadmap based on the latest science.

Dr. Linnea Passaler has helped thousands globally in her digital health program address a wide range of symptoms associated with nervous system dysregulation—from mental symptoms, including anxiety, burnout, and brain fog, to physical symptoms, such as digestive issues, chronic inflammation, and fatigue. In Heal Your Nervous System, Dr. Passaler presents her 5-stage plan, developed over the last decade, to equip you with the knowledge to understand and regulate your unique nervous system.

Despite its advances, conventional medicine has often overlooked the importance of nervous system regulation in our health and quality of life. This is especially true for highly sensitive individuals, who may be more susceptible to a dysregulated nervous system. Instead of merely treating the symptoms, Dr. Passaler shows you how to make a profound shift from reactive treatment to proactive healing.

Grounded in recent scientific advances in neurobiology, chronic stress, trauma, and sensitivity, this is not a short-term or one-size-fits-all solution, but a comprehensive strategy to tackle the source of your symptoms, and restore your physical, cognitive, and emotional health.

In Heal Your Nervous System, you will discover:

• How anxiety, trauma, and chronic stress are not just “in your head,” but manifest in all areas of your health
• How to assess your current level of nervous system dysregulation
• Why nervous system dysregulation can cause both mental and physical symptoms
• How your individual sensitivity profile and past experiences came together to tip your nervous system into a state of dysregulation
• The four most common mistakes people make in their healing journey, and how to avoid them
• Top essential habits that support your nervous system during your healing journey
• Simple practices, exercises, and routines that progressively reverse nervous system dysregulation
• How to organize the most effective practices into the right order, a sequence that supports your healing without getting overwhelmed

Your nervous system and health are far more adaptable than you think. With Heal Your Nervous System as your guidebook, you can navigate a fresh path, reverse symptoms, and progressively move towards a robust mind and body.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Linnea Passaler (P)2023 Fair Winds Press

Critic reviews

“Heal Your Nervous System is a thoughtful exploration of nervous system dysregulation and its profound impact on health. Dr. Linnea Passaler offers a comprehensive approach, rooted in scientific research. This is a must-read for those seeking a deeper understanding of mind-body medicine.”—Dr. Amy Shah, author of I’m So Effing Hungry

“This well-researched guide explores the critical link between mental and physical health. The 5-stage roadmap, based on cutting-edge neurobiology and sensitivity research, is highly relevant for medical professionals seeking a holistic understanding of mind-body health, and for patients seeking relief from chronic conditions.”—Sara Gottfried MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Hormone Cure

"Dr. Linnea's book is going to tackle one of the very core issues within our modern society that stops us from living a fulfilling life. Her book provides the perfect amount of science to help the reader understand their physiology, whilst also being an enjoyable read. The tools she provides are undoubtedly going to help a lot of people. Everyone needs to know about nervous system regulation and Dr. Linnea has done a fantastic job at laying it down for the world."—Nicole Vignola, neuroscientist and author of Rewire

An amazing book

Being an extremely sensitive person and a person with a highly dysregulated nervous system this book is helping me find ways to feel safe again in my body. The voice of the narrator is very soothing and I keep wanting to read and learn more. Thanks to Dr Linnea for helping us heal

I learned the first step and confused by the rest

I got the first phase, awareness. But the other 4 phases have got me feeling like I don’t know what to do after becoming aware of my tension. A lot of this seems like useless rambling, like just get to the point and tell me what to do.

One of the most impactful books on my healing journey

The narrator voice is soothing and perfectly fit for such an amazing book on healing from disregulation, despite the long introduction I find it very well written with a lot of takeaways and practical suggestions that help everyone on their journey.

Very good book

I'm still reading this book but until now I had many "Aha"!! moments where I understood what's the root of my desregulation, it has scientific facts, test and techniques to adress it. The content is good and the pace of the reader is understandable and consistent.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants real tools and deeper knowledge.

Mind blowing book!

Everything makes so much more sense to me now! Everything is presented and explained in a logical and easy understandable way. Now I finally can see how I can recover and regulate my nervous system. Thank you Dr. Linnea

Eye Opening

This book is extremely helpful to get more in tune with my body and nervous system. I’ve never found such an easy break down of how to calm my nervous system and how to manage triggers and stressors as they come up. This is extremely helpful and I found it very relatable to what I’ve gone through and continue to struggle with at times. I would highly recommend it to others.

Repeated Content

A lot of saying the same thing and the PDF included mostly references. Would have liked to be able to see the 5 stages of healing since that’s what the book is about! The website is all about paying to do the process with a membership!

A Long Term Plan for Those Who Qualify

This book was clearly edited to cater to the lowest common denominator. I wish it had included more science to support its claims so that the book was a healthy 50/50 between science and self-help, but it's more like...20/80. Not what I was really looking for.

The book introduces a plan to help regulate the nervous system at "every" level. The plan is very long and involved and while some of it is very helpful in terms of small things you can introduce into daily life that are beneficial, a lot of the plan is dependent on first completing an entire stage before proceeding. Some elements of the plan are flat out too vague to put into practice and are difficult to translate into specifics for your life (the section on spirituality and kinship was just...awful). This is what comes from trying to write for literally everyone.

And though I'm very pleased to find that the beginning of the book had introduction and discussion on what an HSP (highly sensitive person) is, the book utterly failed to properly define what it considered to be CLEAR dysregulation of the nervous system and not simply something else...like anxiety. Or a physical chronic illness like endometriosis or POTS, etc. It basically said anything, literally anything about your life or physical state, could cause dysregulation. Well, great. But for those with chronic illness, a lot of this book may be a waste of time.

Lastly, the book is highly repetitive in many places and the author really should have tried to some up with a synonym for the word 'dysregulation' because if I have to hear it one more time I might scream.