Nervous System Reset Guide

Your nervous system isn’t broken. It’s been protecting you.

The Nervous System Reset Guide: understand why your body does what it does, and what to actually do about it.

Price: $9 AUD · Instant download

Already using your free Nervous System Reset Cards? This is the guide behind them.

You’ve heard “just breathe” more times than you can count. You’ve scrolled past the word polyvagal forty-seven times and still don’t know what it means for your actual Tuesday. And you’ve noticed that your body doesn’t respond the way the advice says it should.

There’s a reason for that. When you live with chronic illness, trauma or neurodivergence, your nervous system has been fielding threat signals for years: pain, unpredictable symptoms, appointments where you weren’t believed, environments that were too loud and too bright. It did exactly what it was built to do. It got more vigilant. Your window got narrower. And the standard advice never accounted for any of that. This guide does.

What it does:

1. Explains how your nervous system works, in plain language, without the jargon
2. Explains specifically how chronic illness, trauma and neurodivergence change the way it functions
3. Gives you practical, low-energy techniques for each state, so you know what to reach for and when

What’s inside:

• Part 1 – How your nervous system works. The three states (safe and social, fight or flight, freeze and shutdown) and the window of tolerance, explained simply.
• Part 2 – Chronic illness, trauma and your nervous system. The section most resources leave out: sensitisation, medical trauma, the toll of being disbelieved, and what sensory differences and masking add.
• Part 3 – The reset techniques. 14 techniques sorted by state, from extended exhale breathing and orienting to bilateral tapping, weighted pressure and gentle rhythm. Each comes with when to use it and how to adapt it on flare days or when you’re bedbound.
• Part 4 – Building a practice. A three-tier toolkit for regulated days, dysregulated days and crisis days, plus a 2-minute morning and evening routine built for your median day, not your best one.
• Reflection pages throughout, ending in a personalised nervous system profile.

The details:

• 30-page digital PDF in A4 and US Letter
• Print it or use it on a tablet
• The companion to the free Nervous System Reset Cards. Don’t have them yet? Download them free here.

Who made this: I’m Briony. I live with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Functional Neurological Disorder, autism, ADHD and trauma, and I wrote this because I needed it and couldn’t find it. I’m also a qualified Trauma Healing Practitioner (Levels 1, 2 and 3), so this guide brings together what I’ve trained in and what I’ve lived. Everything in here is designed for bodies on hard mode.

Please read: This guide is an educational resource drawn from trauma healing practitioner training and lived experience. It is not medical, psychological or mental health advice and isn’t a substitute for professional care. The polyvagal concepts are simplified for accessibility. If you’re in significant distress, please reach out to your GP or a trauma-informed therapist.

Ready for the full deck? The Calm in Chaos Card Deck is the full, extended version of your free Reset Cards: 90 trauma-safe grounding cards for the moments when everything feels like too much. $19 AUD.