Nervous system tools for chronic symptoms

Issue No. 12: I took a vacation. My brain didn’t.

On checking 73 emails on vacation, the second arrow, and giving ourselves a little grace.

Issue No. 11: Ritualizing self-care is adding more pressure to my life

On the habits that actually upregulate our nervous system.

Issue No. 10: Sometimes your nervous system needs trashy TV

On guilty pleasures, real rest, and the newest things we are building at Nervana.

When Your Body Keeps You Guessing

Is Your Pain an Enemy? Or an Invitation?

Issue No. 9: Do you watch TV while you clean?

Why even leisure can become another productivity project.

When Symptoms Flare Just as Recovery Begins

Issue No. 8: Back at Harvard, with a different nervous system

Returning to Harvard after recovery, and seeing the same place with a different nervous system.

How to Talk to a Loved One About Neuroplastic Symptoms, If You Choose to Do So

Issue No. 7: Work, work, work, and then we die?

What chronic symptoms taught me about rest, ambition, and the life I was postponing.

Issue No. 6: Lower the bar

Why making recovery smaller can sometimes make it more sustainable.

Issue No. 5: When it feels like you’ve backtracked

How to meet a setback without turning it into proof that you have failed.

Issue No. 4: What neuroplastic recovery actually looks like

What progress really looks like when recovery is nonlinear.

Issue No. 3: Nervana monthly plan release + a 60-second nervous system tip

A new monthly plan, plus a 60-second way to show your body it is safe.

Issue No. 2: Your brain still thinks a tiger is chasing you

How an ancient threat system turns modern stress into a body on high alert.

Issue No. 1: The Symptom–Safety Loop: why trying to "fix" your body can keep symptoms alive

Why trying to “fix” your body can accidentally reinforce the symptom-safety loop.