Moving With Your Nervous System
Available now on Amazon.
What this book is
Moving With Your Nervous System is the foundational text of the EmBody Method book series. It introduces a practical, body-based framework for understanding stress, safety, and regulation without forcing the body to “perform” wellness.
Written for movers, educators, and anyone navigating chronic overwhelm, this book offers a different starting point: listening first, responding second, and building capacity over time.
What it supports
Understanding stress responses through the body
Moving without overriding pain, fatigue, or dissociation
Building capacity through pacing, sensation, and choice
Reconnecting to movement after injury, burnout, or chronic stress
Who it is for
Individuals seeking a gentler, more intelligent relationship with movement
Fitness professionals and instructors
Educators, therapists, and caregivers
Anyone who feels disconnected from their body but wants to return safely
How it is used
This book can be read straight through or entered at any point. Practices are modular and adaptable. No prior movement experience is required.
Release date: January 1
Format: Print + Kindle
Part of: The Embody Method Series
This book serves as the entry point to the EmBody Method series, which explores nourishment, rest, cognition, strength, and boundaries through a nervous-system-informed lens.
Rest Without Collapse
How to recover, sleep, and slow down without losing momentum
Rest is not always restorative. For many people, slowing down increases anxiety, restlessness, or emotional overwhelm rather than relief.
Rest Without Collapse explores why this happens and how to recover in ways that support capacity instead of shutdown. This work reframes rest as a nervous system skill, not a reward or a retreat.
Rather than asking you to stop completely, this approach focuses on downshifting while staying connected to your life, your responsibilities, and your sense of self.
What You’ll Learn
Why rest can feel unsafe or ineffective
The difference between rest and collapse
How nervous systems recover through rhythm and regulation
Practical tools for recovery and sleep without disengaging from life
Who This Is For
This work is supportive for people who feel exhausted but cannot fully stop, who stay functional through constant override, or who find traditional self-care unsustainable.
No prior nervous system knowledge is required.
How This Fits the EmBody Method
Rest Without Collapse complements movement-based work by supporting recovery, sustainability, and nervous system regulation between sessions.
Movement and rest are not opposites. They work together.
Enough to Eat
Releasing February 3, 2026
What this book is
Enough to Eat is a nourishment companion to the Embody Method. It was written for people who are exhausted by food rules, perfectionism, and collapse cycles around eating.
This is not a diet book.
It is a stability and care book.
What it supports
Eating enough to stabilize energy and mood
Reducing decision fatigue around food
Supporting blood sugar without obsession
Feeding yourself during stress, grief, or low-capacity days
What makes it different
Recipes are structured by capacity, not aspiration
Includes “cannot cook” options without shame
Emphasizes repeatability and regulation over novelty
Written from lived experience, not optimization culture
Who it is for
People recovering from burnout or chronic stress
Those healing their relationship with food
Movement practitioners who need consistent fuel
Anyone who wants food to feel supportive instead of overwhelming
How it is used
This book is meant to live in the kitchen. Recipes are simple, flexible, and designed to work even when motivation is low.
Release date: February 3
Format: Print + Kindle
Part of: The Embody Method Series
How These Books Work Together
These books were written to be read together, not as a sequence to master but as a set of tools that support different moments of regulation and repair.
Moving With Your Nervous System offers a foundation. It introduces awareness of how the nervous system shapes movement, behavior, and response, and provides a framework for noticing patterns without judgment.
Rest Without Collapse focuses on recovery. It speaks to those who are exhausted but still functioning, offering ways to slow down without losing momentum or identity, and reframing rest as a skill rather than a reward.
Enough to Eat addresses nourishment, safety, and sustainability. It explores how access to food, rest, and care influence regulation, and why survival strategies often shape our relationship to nourishment long before choice is available.
Together, these works form a practical ecosystem. They support awareness, nourishment, and recovery as interconnected capacities, helping individuals build resilience without relying on constant override or collapse.Coming Next
Additional Embody Method publications will include:
Instructor manuals
Practice companions
Workshop and cohort materials
This page will be updated as new texts are released.