Course:
Rising in Resilience
Freedom from Burnout for Nurses and Helping Professionals
A Polyvagal and Somatic Psychology approach to healing burnout, acute and chronic stress, and trauma.
Reduce Anxiety. Heal Burnout and Trauma.
Regulate Your Nervous System
✔ Self Paced Course - 16 Chapter + 61 Lessons | ✔ Lifetime Access | ✔ Nervous System Regulation Practices
Deepen your understanding of the body shifts that occur when you move into survival mode, empowering you to take control of your well-being.
Over 6 modules, you'll expand your knowledge of the body and nervous system’s response to stress, burnout and trauma. You will learn practical tools to utilize during work and at home to re-wire your nervous system (neuroplasticity), leading to improved emotional, physical, and relational health.
This not only benefits your personal life, but also enhances your professional relationships and equips you for life's challenges.
Improved response to stress and burnout
A self-paced, in-depth overview of burnout, stress and trauma, responses to it and ways to reset and grow.
Better emotional regulation and resilience
Regulate your nervous system and find true freedom within your body.
Reconnect with your true nature
Come out of states of survival and threat and reconnect to your true nature!
A Call to Renegotiate your Trauma, Stress, and Burnout and Reconnect with Your Deepest Self
(steeped in the latest neuroscience, Polyvagal Theory, somatic psychology, nature based therapy and ancient wisdom practices)
This course is an invitation to renegotiate your trauma, stress and burnout, and reconnect with your essential self. To awaken your inner knowing during life’s most challenging times. This course provides a compassionate space for you to cultivate deeper self-awareness, attune to your body’s wisdom, and navigate burnout, acute and chronic stress, and trauma with more ease and presence. Steeped in the latest neuroscience, somatic psychology research, nature based therapy and ancient wisdom practices, by the end of this course you’ll gain tools to regulate your nervous system, create safety within, and embrace life’s challenges as opportunities for growth. More than just learning theory and tools, this journey is about coming home to your true nature—because when you are deeply connected to your body and inner world, you are better able to come out of survival states and into embodied presence aligned with your true nature and essential self.
Who is this Program for?
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Nurses and Healthcare Professionals
You’re in the trenches every day, offering care and compassion to others, but you know that the key to truly supporting others starts with understanding your own nervous system. This course will help you integrate this knowledge into your practice, so you can prevent burnout and stay balanced while healing others.
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Coaches, Caregivers, Teachers and Parents
You dedicate your life to helping others grow, but you’ve realized that sustainable change happens when people’s nervous systems are in balance. This course will teach you how to work with your own nervous system while empowering others to do the same, creating a foundation for lasting change.
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Personal Growth
You're aware of how stress impacts your body and mind, and you're ready to take proactive steps toward emotional and physical well-being. With this course, you'll gain profound insights into your nervous system’s responses and learn how to regulate them, so you can experience more balance, clarity, and inner peace.
Are you ready for radical befriending and reconnecting with your deepest Self? More than simply learning theory and tools, this course is dedicated to transforming and changing your relationship between you and your nervous system, body, and mind.
Compassion For Our Reactions in the Hard Landscape
This has been an especially hard season. The world seems to be on fire (literally and metaphorically). It feels as if there is a constant drip (or stream) of cortisol in the air sending our nervous systems into overdrive.
It is our human nature and the survival strategy of our reptilian brain to get pulled toward reaction, despair, helplessness, fear, anxiety and rumination during times of distress. This loop of dysregulation can cause us to get stuck in fight, flight, freeze and collapse. Stuck in seeing all of life and one another as a threat. This is for our survival and by design. BUT, with awareness and attunement, we can bring in enough felt safety to our bodies in order to cultivate aligned choice and greater flexibility and capacity in our nervous systems for these times.
Redefining the Journey: Relational Healing with Ourselves
Rising in Resilience: Freedom from Burnout is about moving beyond mere survival. It’s about reconnecting with your inner wisdom, coming home to your body, and rediscovering the calm and clarity within. This course shifts the focus from external pressures and overwhelm to nurturing a loving, attuned relationship with yourself.
Resilience here is not about “powering through” but about softening into a compassionate awareness of your true nature. You’ll learn how to attune to your body’s subtle signals, embrace the gifts of heightened sensitivity, and create an environment of safety and trust within yourself.
The Heartbeat of Our Journey
Grounded in Polyvagal Theory and Somatic Psychology, this course is designed for those who often feel overwhelmed by the intensity of their emotions or the demands of life. Through somatic practices, you will learn to recognize the signs of nervous system imbalance and engage in body-based practices that nourish your well-being.
More than just acquiring tools, this journey transforms your relationship with your body. You’ll deepen your understanding of your nervous system, cultivate self-compassion, and develop the ability to support yourself with attuned and nourishing care.
A Path for Renewal
This is an invitation into being and befriending. It's being and befriending that are the two requirements to heal… to awaken… to transform… to shift… to fully be here… to fully live this life… to participate… to discover your true nature… to be alive… fully… to not hold back any longer. This world needs you. You need you. Your families, neighborhoods need you.
You are already whole and resilient; your body holds the wisdom needed to guide you through life’s challenges. Let’s walk this path together, reconnecting with your True Self and nurturing your nervous system to rediscover a life of greater ease, connection, and presence.
Sending love to you and your nervous system.
Warmly,
Jessica Conway, RN. MSN, RYTT
This Course is Dedicated to Supporting You in Renegotiating your Trauma, Stress and Burnout, and Reconnecting with Your Deepest Self
This course is designed for those seeking to move from feelings of disconnection and overwhelm to deeper connection and presence with themselves, allowing you to feel more grounded and engaged in both your personal and professional life.
You Will Learn to:
Move from Disconnection to Deep Presence: Cultivate a more intimate relationship with yourself, shifting from feeling disconnected or dysregulated to being present, engaged, and grounded in your body and experience.
Recognize Early Signs of Imbalance: Develop embodied self-awareness to notice when your nervous system is out of alignment. You’ll learn how to assess the appropriateness of your stress response to your environment and gain tools to bring yourself back to balance, returning to your body’s natural healing rhythm.
Shift from Shame and Blame to Compassion and Choice: Free yourself from patterns of shame, self-blame, and feeling stuck. By understanding your nervous system, you’ll develop greater compassion for yourself and feel empowered with more choices as you navigate stressful situations.
Release Unhealthy Patterns: Let go of disconnection and dissociation, and instead, cultivate a compassionate, attuned relationship with your body. This course will guide you in developing a deeper relationship with yourself.
Navigate Relationships from a Place of Authenticity: Move beyond defensiveness and the constant feeling of threat in your relationships and work life. You will learn how to communicate and connect with others from a space of authenticity, allowing for greater co-regulation and mutual support.
Create Healthy Boundaries for Your Well-being: Step away from societal pressures to overwork and overproduce, and embrace balanced, embodied boundaries. You’ll develop a compassionate approach to life that nurtures both your well-being and sustainability, at work and at home.
Break Free from Avoidance Patterns: Instead of avoiding distress, you’ll learn to turn toward it with curiosity and care through somatic explorations and inquiries. This will help you embody new ways of being that align with your true nature and capacity to hold all parts of yourself.
Expand Your Capacity for Connection: Foster safe, trusting relationships that support both your personal and professional growth. You’ll expand your ability to co-regulate and connect deeply with others.
Integrate the N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol: This step-by-step framework will equip you to navigate burnout, stress, and trauma with skillful attunement, self-compassion, and mindful presence, allowing you to move through life’s challenges with greater ease.
what’s included?
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Pre-Recorded Teaching Sessions: Six 60-90 min pre-recorded sessions with lectures augmented with stories and experiential exercises. Participants get lifetime access to recording.
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Somatic practices, tools, exercises, and guided meditations attuned to your unique goals and desires. Dedicated to the continuation of the work we are doing together between our course modules and beyond. These practices are dedicated to enhance nervous system and emotional regulation, resilience, and stress recovery.
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Bonus Modules: Three recorded bonus modules. Interviews with Dr. Heather Abernethy, Dr. Arielle Schwartz, and Dr. Danny Lewin.
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Community Support and Development: Access to community discussion space on Thinkific. An opportunity to build a community of like hearted individuals.
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You will get lifetime access to this course and its material.
course curriculum
Module 1
Module 1 - Overview of Applied Polyvagal Theory and Its Application to Burnout Prevention and Resilience.
In this module, you’ll gain a foundational understanding of Polyvagal Theory and how it applies to burnout prevention and resilience. By learning to understand your body’s signals, you will bring clarity, compassion, and empowerment to your healing journey. Discover how to work with your nervous system, rather than against it, shifting from states of survival to deeper states of connection, presence, and resilience.
Module 2
Module 2 - The N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol: A 5-Step Map for Compassionate Awareness and Skillful Attunement. This module introduces the N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol, a 5-step map for navigating challenging times with compassionate awareness and skillful attunement. We’ll take a deep dive into Steps 1 and 2: Notice and Name and Understanding. These steps help bring compassionate awareness to the protective and defensive patterns held in the body, nervous system, and mind. With this new awareness comes greater freedom and choice, aligned with a broader vision for your well-being.
Module 3
Module 3 - Deep Dive into Step 3 of the N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol: Resource and Regulate. In this module, we’ll focus on Step 3: Resource and Regulate - essential tools for a healthy nervous system. In today’s world, many of us live in a constant state of stress or overwhelm, leaving our nervous systems stuck in patterns of fight, flight, freeze, or collapse. Somatic resourcing and nervous system regulation tap into the body’s innate wisdom to find anchors of stability, comfort, and grounding, allowing us to feel more present and engaged in life.
Module 4
Module 4 - Co-Regulation and Embodied Boundaries. Learn the importance of co-regulation and establishing healthy embodied boundaries to foster deeper connection, safety, and authenticity—both with yourself and others. This module will guide you in moving through life with more trust, safety, and presence, allowing you to live in alignment with your true Self and engage in relationships from a place of compassion and care.
Module 5
Module 5 - Deep Dive into Step 4 of the N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol: Somatic Inquiry and Attunement. In this module, we explore Step 4: Somatic Inquiry and Attunement. It’s easy to become merged with patterns of unconscious protective strategies. Somatic Inquiry and Attunement invites you to slow down, listen to the wisdom of your body, and access your deepest truths. These practices are pathways to wholeness, helping you release old tensions, integrate fragmented parts, and reconnect to your authentic self with greater compassion.
Module 6
Module 6 - Deep Dive into Step 5 of the N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol: Embody, Empower, Expand. Step 5, Embody, Empower, Expand, is an invitation to live a vibrant, authentic, and deeply connected life. In this module, you’ll embark on a journey to awaken your true essence, harness your inner power, and step boldly into a life of freedom and possibility. Together, let’s start a revolution of compassion, connection, and well-being.
Why I created this course…
“Maybe my stories can free you from yours.”
I want to share a bit more of my personal journey with burnout and how it led me to create Rising in Resilience. I share this not to play victim, or get sympathy, but truly because I believe our stories are meant to be shared. As my favorite heart-teacher, Sarah Blondin, writes, “Maybe my stories can free you from yours.” And because I believe that what is cast-away in me is also hidden in you.
Since my small eyes could open, I have been a deep feeler. I often believe I feel life at 140%. Being a highly sensitive human and having a sensitive nervous system, life often felt too much, too fast, too overstimulating.
As a nurse for over 15 years, including 8 years in critical care and 3 years in acute dialysis, I chronically battled work related burnout and anxiety. However, it reached a tipping point during the pandemic where even stepping foot into the hospital would trigger a fight-flight response in my body. My body would be consumed by a rushing energy. My vision became tunneled. My breath constricted and shallow. Even on a mellow-ish day at the hospital these responses took me hostage….
In January 2021, I came home from work and collapsed on the ground, feeling an overwhelming and foreign energy coursing through my body. It was a feeling of collapse, freeze, overwhelm and fear. My mind was thinking thoughts it had never thought before and my body was frozen in overwhelm.
After getting through that initial night, I remember the days and weeks following, trying to make sense of it all. My family, out of their love, and the doctors out of their concern, all tried to figure out what this was. There was this urgency to try and analyze it, fix it, diagnose it and medicate it. However, my Somatic Therapist offered a different perspective.
And my Somatic Therapist said to me, "I think what you’ve experienced is a protective, survival response from your nervous system that is outside of your window of capacity.” And she said, "We can try an experiment. If you give me some time, I think we can bring in enough resources to get you back into your window of capacity and even grow your window of capacity a bit bigger so you can start handling more of these larger energies that the world just keeps pouring on us wave after wave." And it really made sense to me, I was willing to do this experiment and give this a shot. I also decided to go back to school for somatic therapy to learn more about the science behind what I was going through and tools to help.
I realized that my burnout came from experiencing too much stress for too long of time without proper resourcing or tools to come back to a felt sense of safety in my body. Burnout had interrupted the resiliency and flexibility of my nervous system, leaving me “stuck” in a threat response until my body had enough and collapsed.
My hope is that the evidence-based tools and strategies I have found over the years to untangle my own knots, will untether you from yours. For it wasn’t the Code Blues that broke me (when you have to do CPR), or the 24-hour call shifts, or even the years of caring for patients at the end of their life…what ultimately broke me was my nervous system.
Nursing burnout left me another person, one who longed to feel like myself again, to slow down, to feel compassionate, to feel alive and full of joy. One thing I know for certain is I would not be where I am today had I not been buoyed by the tools, practices and science of Somatic Therapy and Applied Polyvagal Theory to reclaim my nervous system.
Through Rising in Resilience, I aim to help others overcome burnout and build resilience by providing the tools to come back to a felt sense of safety in their bodies. The book focuses on addressing the physiological responses to stress and burnout, teaching somatic embodiment practices to resource and regulate the nervous system, and promoting self-awareness and resilience.
inner looking
This course invites you on a journey of self-discovery and transformation. Through the practice of inner looking, you will learn to befriend your body, mind, and nervous system—allowing you to cultivate a compassionate relationship with yourself. It’s about moving from mere survival to authentic living, where you embrace who you are with curiosity, care, and presence.
Join Us For Rising in Resilience
Investment
$199
Self Paced Online Course
16 Chapters | 61 Lessions
FAQs
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Polyvagal Theory emphasizes the role the autonomic nervous system --especially the vagus nerve-- plays in regulating our health and behavior. Created and developed by Stephen Porges, PhD, the theory describes the physiological/psychological states which underlie our daily behavior as well as challenges related to our wellness and mental health. By applying Polyvagal Theory to our personal lives as well as to disciplines such as medicine, education, and management, we can understand how safety, co-regulation, and connection are paramount to a healthy human experience.
Find more information and polyvagal resources on the What is Polyvagal Theory? page.
Read Dr. Porges' most recent peer-reviewed paper from August 2023:
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