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Safe to Feel - Restoring Agility to your Nervous System - Audio edition
by Amanda Fincham
Safe to Feel is a gentle, nervous-system-informed guide for anyone living with stress, anxiety, burnout, or chronic overwhelm. This audio book explores how the body responds to lived experience, why symptoms are often protective, and how safety — not force — supports healing. Each chapter can be listened to slowly, paused, or revisited. There is nothing to push through. Your body sets the pace.
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Author Bio
A little about me.
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Closing Reflection
Let it be enoughto pause,to breathe, to feel what you feelwithout rushing it away.
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Chapter 20 - Integration, Wholeness and Living from Your Regulated Self
"Healing is not becoming the best version of yourself. Healing is returning to the wholeness you never left"
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Chapter 19 - Community, Co-Regulation and the Healing Power of Relationship
"We heal through feeling safe in connection with others"Dr Stephen Porges - Neroscientist and Researcher
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Chapter 18 - From Hypervigilance to Presence - Building a Felt Sense of Safety
"safety is not the absence of threat. It is the presence of connection"Gabor Maté - Physician
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Chapter 17 - Movement, Stillness and the Bodies Wisdom
"The body says what words cannot"Martha Graham - Dancer, Teacher and Choreo grapher
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Chapter 16 - Play, Pleasure and Joy - Nervous System Nourishment
"It is a happy talent to know how to play"Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosopher, Lecturer, Essayist and Minister.
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Chapter 15 - Nature, Rhythm, and the Nervous System's Deep Memory
"The earth has music for this who listen"George Santayana - Philosopher, Essayist, Poet and Novelist.
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Chapter 14 - Sleep, Stillness, and the Night time Nervous System
"Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together"Thomas Dekker - Dramatist & Writer
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Chapter 13 - Boundaries and the Nervous System - Saying No Without Shutting Down
"A boundary is the distance at which I can love you and still love myself"Prentis Hemphill - Embodiment Coach
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Chapter 12 - Gut Feeling - The Nervous System and the Digestive Tract
"The gut is not just a place where food is digested. It is where life is absorbed"Jennifer Mann - Author
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Chapter 11 - The Social Nervous System - Connection as Medicine
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we heal in relationship"Harville Hendrix - Author
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Chapter 10 - The Vagus Nerve - Your Body's Social Superpower
"The tone of your vagus nerve determines whether you feel safe in your body and in the world"Deb Dana Author
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Chapter 9 - Emotional Regulation and the Inner Landscape
You don't heal by controlling emotions. You heal by allowing them to move through you.
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Chapter 8 - Everyday Regulation, Breath, Movement, Sound, Stillness
In the stillness we find not only peace but power.
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Chapter 7 - The Healing Power of the Parasympathetic State
"Healing doesn't mean the danger never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life"
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Chapter 6 - Safety First, The role of Felt Safety
"True healing starts when we begin to feel safe in our own body - not just intellectually, but physically" Dr Anthea Todd - Women's Health Change Maker.
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Chapter 5 - Chronic Dysregulation and its Consequences
"Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you"Gabor Maté - Physician
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Chapter 4: Decoding the Body's Signals
"When you listen to your body whisper, you won't have to hear it scream"
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Chapter 3 - Mapping the Mind-Body connection
"Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen"Shakti Gawain - Writer.
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Chapter 2 - A Brief History of Stress and Survival
"The body always leads us home... if we can simply learn to trust sensations and stay with it long enough"Pat Ogden - Psychotherapist
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Chapter 1 - The two branches of the autonomic nervous system
Within your body lives a silent system, always working. Unseen, unfelt and really spoken about.
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Introduction
Why this book? Why now?
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Dedication
To all those I love & every client who has ever placed their health in my hands.
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Safe to Feel - Restoring agility to your nervous system
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The legals
Copyright 2025 Amanda FinchamThis information is general in nature & is not a substitute for professional medical, psychological or therapeutic advice, diagnosis or treatment .
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Safe to Feel is a gentle, nervous-system-informed guide for anyone living with stress, anxiety, burnout, or chronic overwhelm. This audio book explores how the body responds to lived experience, why symptoms are often protective, and how safety — not force — supports healing. Each chapter can be listened to slowly, paused, or revisited. There is nothing to push through. Your body sets the pace.
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