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Self-Love For The Nervous System
With Kionna HowellThis 5-day course explores self-love through the lens of the nervous system. Rather than focusing on fixing or forcing yourself to feel better, this series helps you understand how safety, protection, and regulation shape the way you think, feel, and relate to yourself. Each day includes a brief, accessible teaching on the nervous system followed by a short guided meditation to support integration and grounding. Throughout the course, you’ll learn: • why self-love can feel difficult when your body is focused on protection • how anxiety, urgency, numbness, and self-criticism are nervous system responses • what the window of tolerance is and how to gently return to safety • how self-love becomes more accessible when your nervous system feels supported This course is gentle, trauma-informed, and designed to meet you where you are. There is no pressure to feel calm, positive, or “good” at meditation. You’re invited to move at your own pace, repeat lessons as needed, and use these practices as tools for nervous system care and self-compassion.
Learn how nervous system safety supports self-love through simple education and guided meditations.
About this course
This 5-day course explores self-love through the lens of the nervous system. Rather than focusing on fixing or forcing yourself to feel better, this series helps you understand how safety, protection, and regulation shape the way you think, feel, and relate to yourself. Each day includes a brief, accessible teaching on the nervous system followed by a short guided meditation to support integration and grounding. Throughout the course, you’ll learn: • why self-love can feel difficult when your body is focused on protection • how anxiety, urgency, numbness, and self-criticism are nervous system responses • what the window of tolerance is and how to gently return to safety • how self-love becomes more accessible when your nervous system feels supported This course is gentle, trauma-informed, and designed to meet you where you are. There is no pressure to feel calm, positive, or “good” at meditation. You’re invited to move at your own pace, repeat lessons as needed, and use these practices as tools for nervous system care and self-compassion.
Meet your Teacher
Kionna is a licensed mental health therapist and a certified EMDR therapist with specialized training in trauma-informed, somatic, and nervous system–based approaches to healing. She has extensive experience supporting individuals in understanding how stress, anxiety, and self-criticism are shaped by the nervous system rather than personal failure. Her work focuses on helping people build safety, regulation, and self-compassion through gentle awareness and practical nervous system education. She integrates evidence-based practices with grounding techniques that are accessible, supportive, and respectful of each person’s pace. This course reflects her clinical experience and belief that self-love becomes more possible when the nervous system feels understood and supported.