Heal Your Nervous System
Physician Linnea Passaler writes from her own collapse after a decade running a dental-surgery practice that left her with chronic illness and exhaustion her doctors could not name. Passaler rebuilt using nervous-system regulation work and now runs a global program teaching the same protocol. The book lays out her five stages, awareness, regulation, restoration, connection, and expansion, with weekly practices a reader can do alone. Each stage pairs the underlying polyvagal-theory and somatic-trauma research with specific exercises for sleep, breath, vagal tone, and pacing. The book is structured as a workbook a reader moves through over months rather than reads cover to cover.
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A physician who recovered from chronic burnout and dysregulation lays out a five-stage workbook for nervous-system repair, with weekly practices grounded in polyvagal-theory research.
Heal Your Nervous System is Linnea Passaler's 2024 framework for nervous-system regulation, drawing on polyvagal theory and somatic practices. It is aimed at general readers managing chronic stress, anxiety, or trauma responses.
Linnea Passaler is a physician, and the book draws on contemporary trauma-informed practice including Stephen Porges's polyvagal theory and Bessel van der Kolk's work. Some specific exercises sit at the edge of evidence-based practice; the broader framework is widely used clinically.
Heal Your Nervous System was written by Linnea Passaler, published in 2024 by Quarto Publishing Group USA.
Heal Your Nervous System is a standalone novel by Linnea Passaler, not part of a series.
Heal Your Nervous System is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
