About this episode

This episode features a guided somatic practice aimed at resetting the nervous system after experiencing burnout.

→ Start to transform your nervous system regulation The Extended Exhale — A Somatic Practice for Nervous System Reset You've been running on reserves for longer than you'd like to admit. The meetings, the decisions, the weight of holding it together — it doesn't leave when you close your laptop. It settles into your chest, your jaw, your gut. This isn't another mindset exercise. This is a guided somatic practice designed to give your nervous system what it's been quietly begging for: a signal that it's safe to power down. Using the Extended Exhale technique — a breath pattern that directly activates your parasympathetic nervous system — you'll learn how to shift your body from the chronic "ready state" of burnout into genuine rest. Not the kind you get from collapsing on the sofa. The kind your nervous system actually recognises. This practice is the companion to our episode on quiet burnout. What you'll experience: • The Extended Exhale — a parasympathetic activation technique • Peripheral awareness expansion to release hypervigilance • A full body scan to locate where burnout is living in your system • A guided return to calm — not through thinking, but through feeling When to…

People in this episode

Host: Damian Appleby

Topics covered

• nervous system regulation
• somatic practice
• burnout recovery
• breath techniques
• self-care

Keywords

• nervous system
• burnout
• somatic practice
• Extended Exhale
• parasympathetic activation

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