Calm In The Chaos: Nervous System Support For Overwhelming Times - by Kari Doherty

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Calm In The Chaos: Nervous System Support For Overwhelming Times

With Kari Doherty

The world feels loud, and your body feels it. In this 7-day course, you'll learn how to support your nervous system in times of overwhelm. Through short, powerful lessons and gentle practices, you’ll reconnect with your inner steadiness, set boundaries around energy and information, and cultivate grounded resilience. You’ll leave with tools to regulate your body, protect your peace, and return to yourself again and again, no matter what’s happening around you.


Meet your Teacher

Kari Doherty is a yoga teacher, meditation guide, and wellness educator with over a decade of experience supporting individuals on their paths to healing and self-regulation. She holds an E-RYT 500 designation, is trained in trauma-informed and recovery-focused yoga, and brings deep knowledge of nervous system science and mindfulness practices. Kari’s teaching is grounded, compassionate, and accessible, helping people return to their bodies and find steadiness in uncertain times.

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7 Days

3.1k students

4.9 stars

5 min / day

Anxiety

English


Lesson 1

You’re Not Imagining It — The Weight You Feel Is Real

The heaviness you feel isn’t all in your head; it’s in your nervous system. This lesson introduces the concept of nervous system hijacking and how overstimulation affects our bodies. You’ll begin a new relationship with regulation, rooted in rest and self-trust.

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Lesson 2

Everything Is Not Meant For Your Consumption

Constant exposure to information can create emotional paralysis. Today, you’ll learn how to protect your attention and recognize that saying “no” to the noise is a form of self-respect. Boundaries aren’t avoidance, they’re strategy.

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Lesson 3

Your Body Keeps The Scroll

Even when your mind tunes out, your body remembers. This session explores how emotions are experienced as sensations and why tuning into the body can help us process what we’re holding. You’ll reconnect with your inner guidance system through breath, stillness, and awareness.

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Lesson 4

Reclaiming Your Energy

Your energy is sacred and finite. Today’s session invites you to notice where your energy is leaking and gives you a practice for calling it back. You’ll begin to prioritize your own peace without guilt.

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Lesson 5

Joy Is A Disruption

Joy isn’t naive; it’s a nervous system intervention. In a culture that thrives on urgency and fear, joy becomes a radical act of resilience. This lesson helps you reconnect to your delight as a source of strength.

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Lesson 6

You Are Still Safe In This Moment

We often search for safety by controlling our outer world. Today, you’ll learn to create moments of internal safety, not as denial, but as nervous system care. Safety isn’t a destination; it’s a felt sense you can access breath by breath.

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Lesson 7

Come Home To Yourself

You’ve made it through — not because the world got quieter, but because you’ve changed your relationship to it. In this closing session, you’ll reflect, integrate, and reclaim your ability to return to yourself. Calm isn’t something you chase; it’s something you build within.

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4.9 (288)

Recent Reviews

Jade

February 11, 2026

This course was fantastic and the teachers voice was perfection. Definitely recommend.

alisa

February 8, 2026

Excellent! Thank you

Maggie

Maggie

February 6, 2026

This has been so helpful….thank you!

Maureen

Maureen

February 5, 2026

Thank you for helping me recognize where to find calm amidst the chaos. 🙏

Monika

Monika

February 1, 2026

So soothing and reassuring. I know I'll come back to this course if ever I struggle.

Gail

January 29, 2026

Thank you for this!!!! Well done and helped A LOT!!!!!

Jen

Jen

January 27, 2026

Timely and extremely helpful course for where our world is today. Highly recommend and I am sure I will be returning to this often.

Marsha

Marsha

January 26, 2026

This course has been so helpful to me. I was sad when the course ended. Thank you for helping me during these horrendous times.

Joe

Joe

January 18, 2026

Best app ever

Patricia

Patricia

January 10, 2026

An absolute must listen to for all. I binged in one sitting(actually in my bed lol) Concise informative and her voice made this a winner for me

J

January 8, 2026

Incredibly calming

Marla

Marla

December 26, 2025

Wonderful nurturing inspiring

Priscilla

December 10, 2025

Wonderful reflections, helpful tools— I love “I carry calm within me” ❤️

Laura

Laura

December 3, 2025

Really enjoyed this course and plan to do it again as well as take the follow up course. Thank you!

Mary

November 28, 2025

Very helpfu, will repeat as needed.

Karina

Karina

November 19, 2025

Loved this course, thank you. Your voice is gentle and calming too 🙏🏻

Donna

Donna

November 15, 2025

Thank you. This is so helpful.

Ros

November 2, 2025

Thankyou for reminding me of the tools I can use to create calm in a storm🙏🙏

Shelly

Shelly

October 31, 2025

SO wonderful! Your first day when you said “It is not your fault” brought me to much needed tears. 😭 Thank you so very much. You have made a difference in my life. 💕🥰

Tina

Tina

October 30, 2025

Thank you so much for this course. So needed, so soothing, one to come back to over and over. 💗

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