2. What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You

Stress doesn’t only live in your head. It lives in the tension in your shoulders, the tightness in your chest, the exhaustion that sleep doesn’t seem to fix. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed without being able to explain exactly why, your body has likely been trying to tell you something for a while.

This workbook explores the connection between your nervous system and your emotional life — in language that’s warm and accessible rather than clinical or overwhelming. You’ll be introduced to the body’s five core stress responses: fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and flop. You’ll begin to recognise which ones show up most often for you, and why that matters for how you cope.

Inside, you’ll find somatic awareness exercises to help you tune into physical sensation as information, a guided body scan to develop presence and self-attunement, and reflective prompts that connect what your body is doing to what you’re actually feeling underneath.

This is a fillable PDF — type directly into the fields on screen, or print and work through it by hand. There’s no rush. This kind of awareness takes time, and this workbook gives you the space to build it gently.