Chronic stress keeps your body in fight, flight, or freeze
Trauma is often misunderstood as a purely emotional or psychological experience. But what many people don’t realise is that trauma fundamentally reshapes the nervous system, the part of us responsible for how we react to stress, connect with others, and feel safe in the world.
If you’ve ever felt chronically anxious, emotionally numb, or easily triggered by situations that others seem to handle with ease it’s not a flaw in your character. It’s your nervous system responding to past pain.
Understanding the Nervous System’s Role
Your nervous system is your body’s internal alarm system. It decides whether you’re safe, in danger, or need to shut down to survive. The three most common trauma responses are:
- Fight – confrontation, defensiveness, anger
- Flight – anxiety, overworking, perfectionism
- Freeze – dissociation, numbness, withdrawal
When we experience trauma especially developmental trauma in childhood our nervous system can become stuck in one of these responses. Even when the danger has passed, our body continues to react as if it’s still under threat.
This is why trauma isn’t something you can just “think” your way out of. It lives in the body, not just the mind.
Healing Helps Regulate Your Nervous System
The good news? Your nervous system is not broken it’s just dysregulated. And with the right support, it can relearn how to return to balance.
Through somatic practices, breathwork, inner child healing, and compassionate presence, you can begin to rewire your internal response to stress. Instead of being thrown into panic or shutdown, you learn to pause, feel, and respond with grounded awareness.
Uzma Naqvi’s holistic coaching approach is centred around this work. In her sessions, clients are supported to:
- Recognise their dominant stress response
- Learn how to notice and track nervous system shifts
- Practise tools for calming the body in real-time
- Create rituals that restore a sense of internal safety
You don’t have to stay in survival mode. Healing gives you back choice.
Safety Is the Foundation for Emotional Stability
Before we can feel joy, love, or trust we must first feel safe. Safety isn’t just about physical surroundings; it’s about how our nervous system perceives those surroundings.
If you grew up in an environment where emotional expression was unsafe or inconsistent, your nervous system likely learned to anticipate danger even in seemingly calm moments.
This can lead to patterns like: – Overreacting to minor conflicts – Feeling unable to relax, even when things are “fine” – Struggling to connect emotionally with others
Creating safety is the first step to healing these patterns.
Uzma’s coaching container is built on safety emotional, energetic, and nervous system safety. You’re not rushed. You’re not judged. You’re simply welcomed as you are.
From that place of acceptance, deep transformation begins.
What Regulating Your Nervous System Looks Like
Regulation doesn’t mean you never feel anxious or overwhelmed. It means you notice, and you have tools to bring yourself back into balance.
You may find that you: – Respond instead of react – Set boundaries without fear – Trust your emotions instead of fearing them – Feel more present, grounded, and alive
Healing the nervous system is not a quick fix it’s a return to wholeness. It’s a process of remembering that safety, connection, and calm are your birthright.
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You don’t have to live in a constant state of hyper-vigilance or emotional shutdown. You can learn how to regulate your system with compassion, not control. You can feel safe in your body again.
Let Uzma Naqvi guide you back to nervous system balance.
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Your healing begins when your body feels safe. Let’s take that first step together.
