A plain-language library for your inner world.
Short reads that explain what's happening. Small interactives you can actually try. Everything is free and safe to share.
Nervous system
The states you move between all day — and how to shift them.
Polyvagal Ladder
Tap a rung: safe & social, fight/flight, or shutdown — and get moves that fit.
The window of tolerance
The zone where you can think and feel at the same time.
Fight, flight, freeze — and fawn
Four ancient responses your body runs before you can think.
Polyvagal theory, in plain language
Your nervous system has three gears: connect, mobilise, shut down.
Grounding techniques: 5-4-3-2-1 and beyond
Simple sensory anchors that pull you back into the room when your mind has run off.
How to regulate your nervous system
Regulation isn't being calm — it's the ability to move between states without getting stuck.
Somatic exercises, explained
Small body practices that teach your nervous system it's safe to settle.
Emotional dysregulation, in plain language
When feelings arrive louder, faster, and stay longer than the moment calls for.
Window of Tolerance
A quick check-in: above the window, inside, or below — matched regulation moves.
Box Breathing
A 4-4-4-4 breath animator — one minute to drop a gear.
5-4-3-2-1 Grounding
Guided sensory grounding when your mind has run off.
Trauma & the body
What trauma is, how it lives in the body, and how it heals.
Body Map
Tap where you feel it — get plain-language notes on what the body might be holding.
What is trauma?
Trauma isn't the event — it's what got stuck in the body after.
What is dissociation?
When things get too much, the mind dims the lights to protect you.
How does trauma live in the body?
Stress that didn't get to finish stays in the tissues, waiting for a chance to complete.
Complex PTSD (CPTSD) vs PTSD, explained
PTSD is what an event leaves behind. CPTSD is what a long chapter leaves behind.
Feelings & needs
Naming what you feel, and what's underneath it.
Parts & self
Why you feel like more than one person inside — and what to do with it.
Relationships
Attachment, boundaries, and the patterns that repeat.
Chronic symptoms
When the body keeps signaling — pain, gut, seizures, FND.
When pain stays after the injury heals
Chronic pain is real — and often a sensitive alarm system, not ongoing damage.
IBS and the gut-brain conversation
Your gut and brain talk constantly — in IBS, the conversation has gotten loud.
Functional seizures (PNES) explained
Real seizures. Not epilepsy. Not faking. A brain-network disorder that responds to therapy.
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) — a software problem in a working brain
FND is a real neurological condition where the brain's wiring is fine but the signals are getting crossed.
Nothing you tap here is saved or sent anywhere. These pages are free to use and share — therapists often send them to clients between sessions.