NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION FOR HIGH ACHIEVERS: Simple Vagus Nerve Exercises and Gentle Somatic Tools to Calm Burnout, Perfectionism, and the Fear of Slowing Down
About this audiobook
She closed the deal she'd spent three years chasing. Twenty minutes later, alone in a hotel room, she thought she was having a heart attack. 💼
"I got everything I wanted," Rachel told her friend that night, "and my body's acting like something's attacking me." Champagne unopened on the desk. Team celebrating two floors down. Her nervous system had been running in sustained overdrive for so long it didn't know what to do the moment the target disappeared. It didn't glide to a stop. It lurched.
If you've hit the goal and felt nothing but dread… if slowing down feels more dangerous than burning out… if "just relax" makes you want to throw something… this book was not written to tell you to want less.
This is not a wellness book asking you to achieve less. It's a practical case, backed by conversations with founders, surgeons, litigators, and elite performance coaches, that a dysregulated nervous system is bad for performance, not just bad for wellbeing, and that recovery is the infrastructure underneath sustainable achievement, not time off from it.
Inside you'll learn:
⚡ Why success doesn't switch a nervous system off, and what actually does
⚡ The Two Minute Recovery, built for people who claim they don't have five
⚡ The real cost of burnout on decision quality, not just how you feel
⚡ How to talk to a partner who doesn't run as hot as you do
⚡ A 14-day plan that treats recovery like training, not a break from it
Rachel runs her third company now. She'll tell you exactly what changed.
Read this book, and give your body permission to actually land.
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About the author
Claire Wardel writes practical, compassionate books about nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and finding calm in an overstimulating world.
Her interest in the nervous system began close to home, after watching someone she loved struggle for years with chronic stress while insisting he was “fine.” Determined to understand what was happening beneath the surface, Claire began exploring the science of stress, the nervous system, breathwork, vagus nerve practices, and body-based approaches to feeling calmer and more grounded.
Claire is not a clinician, and she doesn't write like one. Her aim is to take ideas that can feel complicated or clinical and turn them into simple, approachable practices that ordinary people can actually use in everyday life.
Her books are written for anyone who wants to understand their body better, feel more at ease within it, and discover practical ways to support a calmer, steadier nervous system.
