NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION FOR HIGHLY SENSITIVE PEOPLE: Simple Vagus Nerve Exercises and Gentle Somatic Tools to Calm Overwhelm and Feel Steady in a Loud World
About this audiobook
One sentence of feedback. Two sleepless nights, and twenty minutes crying alone in a parking garage. 🚗
That was Sophie's performance review: one gentle note, in an otherwise glowing report, that she could speak up more in meetings. Her heart pounded the second she heard it. She replayed it on a loop for a week, unable to just "let it go," the way, in her own words, "a normal person clearly would have." It took a therapist to finally name what was happening: Sensory Processing Sensitivity, a real, well-documented nervous system trait shared by roughly fifteen to twenty percent of people, that processes everything, sound, feedback, other people's moods, more deeply than average.
If a flickering light gives you a headache nobody else notices… if one tense conversation replays in your head for days… if you love people deeply but need to disappear to a quiet room the moment they leave… you are not too sensitive. Your nervous system just needs different tools than everyone else's.
This book will not try to toughen you up. That was never the answer, and it was never the problem. Your depth of processing is the same trait that makes you notice what others miss. This book simply gives that nervous system what it actually needs to stop running on overwhelm.
Inside you'll learn:
🌊 The real science behind Sensory Processing Sensitivity, and the biggest myths about it
🌊 Why being highly sensitive isn't the same as shy or introverted
🌊 Gentle vagus nerve exercises built for a system that processes everything at full volume
🌊 How to explain what you need to people who don't feel the world this way
🌊 A 14-day plan to feel steady without dimming who you are
Sophie still feels everything. She just isn't drowning in it anymore.
Grab a copy, and stop apologizing for how deeply you feel things.
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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.
