So many people ask me to explain to them what the Nervous System is, like as if they know nothing - a “nervous system for dummies” explanation.

I think it’s shocking that this isn’t taught to young kids in school, to doctors, mental health practitioners, and really anyone interacting with… I dunno - other humans!?

It’s basic human life, and we don’t know about it, no wonder so many of us are crumbling - we’re simply not equipped to know how to manage ourselves, interpret our own behaviours and translate anyone around us.

We talk a lot about stress.

Stress at work.
Stress in leadership.
Stress in relationships.
Stress in modern life.

But very rarely do we talk about the system in the body that is actually processing all of that stress in the first place.

There is a version of leadership that is loud.

You know the type I mean? Needing people to feel small and quiet, so they can feel big and important.

Got them pictured in your mind?

Good.

The leadership style is productivity-driven.
Always available.
Always on.

Guaranteed to be always dysregulated.

And then there is the kind of leadership that actually sustains a life.

The kind that understands that the nervous system is not separate from the boardroom, or that your home is not separate from your strategy. That your body is not separate from your performance.

This is the leadership I am interested in.

Not leadership as performance.
Leadership as integration.