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Nervous System Specialist | Author | 10K+ hrs researching & coaching mental well-being & nutrition | Helping you end stress through nervous system literacy
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Sep 14 16 tweets 5 min read
Parasympathetic activation is the #1 way to break bad habits, release childhood trauma, and reset your nervous system for peak health.

Here's how it works and how to make it your superpower: 🧵

(Bookmark this now) Carl Jung once said:

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

Your vagus nerve is the same.

Until you learn to consciously control your behavior, your biology dictates your actions. Image
Sep 12 13 tweets 5 min read
I'm 47.

Stress trapped me for years, so I became obsessed with neuroscience.

After 10000+ hours researching high performers, CEOs & athletes, my mind is now bulletproof.

I helped 493+ people do the same.

Master these 7 types of rest to change your life: 🧵 Sleep isn't enough when your nervous system needs 7 different recovery modes.

Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith's research exposed why you're exhausted:

You're getting the WRONG type of rest.

Here's what's killing your energy:x Image
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Sep 10 14 tweets 6 min read
I'm 47.

When I was young, I wasted years trapped in stress and anxiety with zero direction...

Then I read Carl Jung's letters on the 7 Laws for Finding Your Life's Purpose, and it changed my life.

Here's the philosophy to manifest your destiny: 🧵 Image
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Jung wrote to a student in 1945:

"Your purpose isn't found - it's revealed through confronting what you avoid most."

After 20+ years applying his principles with 493+ clients, I discovered something profound:

These laws only work when your nervous system allows them to...
Sep 8 14 tweets 5 min read
Parasympathetic activation is the #1 way to break bad habits, release childhood trauma, and reset your nervous system for peak health

Here are 7 methods to build stress resilience, release stored trauma, and reset your immunity: 🧵

1) Cold Face Dip The mammalian dive reflex is nature’s emergency brake.

Splash cold water or submerge face for 15–30 sec. This slows heart rate, calms vagal tone, and stops fight-or-flight instantly.

But what does this have to do with the parasympathetic nervous system? Image
Sep 7 16 tweets 5 min read
If your nervous system is stuck in "survival mode", you need a full body reset...

Since your therapist won't show you this...

Here's the #1 way to break bad habits, destroy stress, release childhood trauma, and reset your nervous & immune system for peak health...

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Carl Jung once said:

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

Your vagus nerve is the same.

Until you learn to consciously control your behavior, your biology dictates your actions.

So how do you take back control? Image
Sep 6 13 tweets 5 min read
As a Nervous System Specialist,

I've seen countless people waste years running away from stress - just to end up hopeless & more depressed...

After 10000+ hours coaching over 493 high performers and CEOs, here's how to make stress your superpower: 🧵 Image
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A study of 30,000 adults shocked psychologists.

• High stress + belief it was harmful = 43% higher risk of death.
• High stress + belief it wasn’t harmful = longest lifespans.

It wasn’t the stress that killed people.

It was their relationship to stress.
Sep 4 16 tweets 6 min read
This man reveals what most therapists hide:

Leo Tolstoy.

Over 100 years ago, he exposed how modern life was designed to secretly keep you stressed, depressed, and full of regret.

Here's his chilling warnings and how to break free (according to neuroscience): 🧵 Image
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Leo Tolstoy isn’t just any writer.

He’s the mind behind War and Peace and Anna Karenina—novels that shaped world literature.

However, his later works took on a philosophical tone, preoccupied with the question:

How should we live, knowing we will die? Image
Sep 3 16 tweets 6 min read
Dr. Andrew Huberman often says:

"The brain is capable of incredible things, but it requires effort and dedication to unlock its full potential."

Once you free your mind... stress, anxiety, & depression evaporate.

Here's the Huberman Limitless Mind Protocol: 🧵 Image
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Philosopher Carl Jung once said:

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

Your mind works the same way.

If you don’t train it, your biology defaults to distraction and stress.
Sep 2 17 tweets 7 min read
The most destructive, oddly worshipped, yet ignored problem in the world:

Chronic Stress.

It silently hijacks your brain, burns out your body & mind, and tears down your immune system.

Here’s Dr. Jordan Peterson’s 7-step protocol to unlock your mind: 🧵 Image
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Before Peterson’s steps, you need to see the biology.

Chronic stress isn’t just “feeling anxious.”

It’s your nervous system trapped in survival mode—keeping the alarm on long after the threat is gone.

If your life is chaotic, your nervous system assumes you’re unsafe.
Aug 31 13 tweets 5 min read
I'm 47.

Stress trapped me for years, so I became obsessed with neuroscience.

After 10000+ hours researching high performers, CEOs & geniuses, my mind is now bulletproof.

I have helped 493+ people do the same.

These are my top 5 neuro-hacks that will change your life: Image
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Chronic stress isn’t just in your head.

Your brain triggers the alarm → hormones surge
→ your body enters survival mode.

A short burst helps you react.

But when it never shuts off, it slowly breaks you down.

That’s why chronic stress is so lethal:
Aug 29 14 tweets 5 min read
Big Pharma doesn't want you to know this...

Parasympathetic activation is the #1 way to break bad habits, release childhood trauma, and reset your nervous system for peak health.

Here's how it works and how to make it your superpower:

THREAD 🧵 Image Carl Jung once said:

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

Your vagus nerve is the same.

Until you learn to consciously control your behavior, your biology dictates your actions. Image
Aug 28 10 tweets 5 min read
Dr. Gabor Maté dedicated his life to curing childhood trauma.

His finding? Trauma is the root of most:

• diseases
• addictions
• stress & anxiety

It's not in your mind and invisible in your genes.

I've collected his 5 most powerful lessons: (THREAD) 🧵 Image
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1. Western medicine sees disease as a separate "thing."

But Maté shows illness is not an entity; it’s a process.

Your life, relationships, and environment shape whether disease develops or heals.

Mind, body, and society are inseparable. Image
Aug 20 16 tweets 6 min read
I'm 47.

I used to work 70-hour weeks until burnout almost ruined my life.

After 20 years and 10,000+ hours of coaching others...

Here's my protocol to eliminate burnout (for good): 🧵 In the morning, you wake up exhausted—no matter how much you sleep.

In the evening, you feel “tired but wired”—too exhausted to work, yet unable to fall asleep.

You blame it on “too much work” or “not enough rest.”

But what if burnout isn’t what you think it is?
Aug 18 17 tweets 6 min read
Dr. Daniel Amen is the top brain health expert in the world.

He just revealed 6 everyday habits that destroy your brain faster than aging.

They’re free, addictive, and almost everyone uses them daily:

1) ChatGPT Image Yes, using ChatGPT is rotting your brain.

MIT study found a 47% collapse in brain activity when people wrote with ChatGPT (compared to writing on their own).

“Use it or lose it” applies to your brain just as to your muscles.
Aug 15 16 tweets 6 min read
The most dangerous, life-wrecking, yet ignored condition today:

THYROID DYSFUNCTION

It's why you wake up tired, can't lose weight, and feel foggy 24/7—despite doing everything “right”.

Here is a 7-step plan to fix your thyroid health (before it's too late): 🧵 1/ Watch The Symptoms

From my experience, the most common symptoms of thyroid dysfunction are:

• Fatigue
• Dry skin
• Hair loss
• Brain fog
• Constipation
• Slow digestion
• Cold hands & feet

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Aug 14 17 tweets 6 min read
Chronic stress isn’t normal.

Yet most people wake up tired, spend the day in anxiety, and lie down unable to fall asleep.

This ends today.

Here’s why your nervous system is screaming for help (and how to calm it down forever): Image Your nervous system controls your entire body—whether that’s voluntarily or involuntarily.

When talking about stress, we’re interested in autonomic (involuntary) nervous system. Image
Aug 13 16 tweets 5 min read
Zebras don’t get ulcers.
Zebras don't get strokes.
Zebras don’t get cancer.

Despite facing death daily, wild animals recover from stress instantly.

Humans? We worry for years and get chronic disease.

Here’s why stress is destroying your health—and how to break free: Image When stressed, your body releases hormones (adrenaline and cortisol) which help:

• Convert glycogen to glucose (blood sugar)
• Accelerate heart rate and oxygen intake
• Increase alertness and focus

This gives you more energy, sharper reactions, and more muscle strength. Image
Aug 12 14 tweets 5 min read
Andrew Huberman just dropped a 2-hour masterclass on cortisol—your body's stress hormone.

He said high cortisol leads to burnout, faster aging, weight gain, memory loss, heart disease and Alzheimer's.

Here's a 7-step protocol to fix your cortisol levels (backed by science): Image
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[Step 1] Understand How Cortisol Works

Cortisol isn't "bad"—your brain and body need it to gain energy. The problem is when you release too much cortisol, at the wrong time.
Aug 11 23 tweets 7 min read
The most common, deadly, yet misunderstood problem in the world:

Stress.

It makes you anxious, depressed, unable to fall asleep, and it often leads to early death.

Here’s what stress is, how it affects your brain, and how to stop it from killing you (backed by science): Image First, some statistics:

• 83% of workers feel work-related stress
• Stress increases risk of 75%–90% of diseases
• 76% of adults suffer stress-related health issues

Despite how common and dangerous stress is, most people have no idea how it works.

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Jun 18 19 tweets 7 min read
Doctors warn about smoking, sugar, and bad genes. But the real killer?

Chronic stress.

It’s silently rewiring your brain, wrecking your body, and cutting years off your life.

Here are 9 ways stress is killing you—and how to make it work for you instead: 🧵 Image
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Most people think stress is just "feeling overwhelmed."

But stress isn’t just mental.

It physically rewires your brain and body—triggering disease, chronic fatigue, and even premature death.

Here’s how…
Jun 13 18 tweets 5 min read
Chronic stress isn’t in your head.

It’s not genetic, either.

It’s a full-body glitch—your nervous system is stuck in a 200,000-year-old survival trap.

Until you rewire it, you’ll stay stuck in fatigue, brain fog, and silent burnout.

Here’s how to break the loop: 🧵 Image Most people miss the early signs.

Tension in your chest. Racing thoughts. Trouble focusing.

Digestive issues. Hair thinning. Waking up tired even after 8 hours.

You assume it’s just aging or part of life.

It’s not. And it only gets worse...