How to Meet Christmas Without Your Body Treating It Like a Threat
JOIN ME LIVE ON TUESDAY, 24TH NOVEMBER | 7pm GMT | ZOOM
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You know what's coming....
The gatherings you'll say yes to even though you're already tired. The conversations with family that leave you braced. The food, the drink, the late nights, the pressure to enjoy it all while your body is running on fumes.
And underneath it, your nervous system is treating every demand like a threat.
You're not imagining it.
Your body doesn't distinguish between a work deadline, a difficult conversation, and the low-level dread of everything you're meant to organise before Christmas arrives. It responds to all of it the same way: cortisol up, muscles tight, breath shallow, always anticipating the next thing.
By the time you get to Christmas Day, you're not relaxed. You're exhausted from holding it together.
This session will help you interrupt that pattern before it takes hold.
After a short introduction to what's happening in your nervous system when it mistakes busyness for danger, and why trying to push through makes it worse, we head into a 50-minute practice using movement and breath to help your body recalibrate, so you can meet the season with flexibility instead of fighting yourself through it.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF:
✓ You're already anticipating how tired you'll be by Christmas, and it's only November
✓ You know you should slow down, but your body won't let you
✓ You've tried mindfulness, meditation apps, telling yourself to relax, and none of it has changed how your body actually feels
✓ You want to meet the season without your nervous system treating every demand like a crisis
A note from Nahid
For more than twenty years, I’ve worked with people whose nervous systems have adapted to lives of responsibility and pressure.
Many of them appear calm and capable from the outside. Inside, their bodies stay organised around readiness, always braced for the next demand, and that pattern tends to grow louder at this time of year.
My work helps people recognise the patterns their nervous systems have learned, and shows how those patterns can begin to shift through awareness, rhythm and somatic experience.
This session is a first step in that process, and it’s timed one month before Christmas so you can meet the season with more ease.
"I have a much better understanding of what I need to do and am keen to explore this more with you.”
- Rachel
How to Meet Christmas Without Your Body Treating It Like a Threat
A practice you can return to whenever your body starts running ahead of you. The ability to notice when you're bracing, anticipating or tensing, and the tools to interrupt it before it becomes your baseline.
Live: Tuesday 24 November, 7pm GMT
60 minutes £33 + Recording
This is one month before Christmas. Early enough to make a difference.