Episode 7: Learning to Feel Safe in Stillness

How to Begin Regulating a Nervous System Stuck in Survival Mode

In this episode of Soul Medicine with Dr. Laura C. Brenes, we continue the conversation from Episode 6, When Healing Feels Unsafe, and explore what it truly means to begin creating safety within the body again.

Dr. Laura shares her personal experience navigating nervous system dysregulation, hypervigilance, burnout, and autoimmune illness—and how healing required more than physical treatment alone. It required learning how to slow down, reconnect with the body, regulate the nervous system, and feel safe in stillness again.

Together, we explore why rest can feel uncomfortable, how survival mode disconnects us from the present moment, and practical ways to begin gently teac ...