We recently sat down with trauma educator and wellness consultant Jemarc Axinto (they/she/he) to talk about self-regulation—what it is, why we need it, and how to stop living in a constant state of fight, flight, or freak out.

Jemarc is a Filipinx, Nonbinary, Subclinical Mental Health professional, Trauma Educator, Trauma Recovery Coach and Wellness Consultant with a deep practice rooted in Tibetan Buddhism and a holistic view of spirituality and wellness. They have dedicated over ten years of their life to the actualization of a mind, body, spirit balanced no longer withheld by trauma, labels, and roles.

They’ve turned this deep study into an alchemical process to empower everyone they meet into actualizing their most authentic selves and radically rewiring their brains to heal trauma at its root in the nervous system. T ...