Julia’s Coaching Pathway 2:
Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) Coaching
An embodied listening journey that supports your nervous system (vagus nerve) to rebalance — so you can move out of chronic stress patterns and into more ease, deeper presence, and self-connection
Live life fully, your way…
This page explains more about chronic survival patterns and why it can make sense to work with the vagus nerve with SSP-Coaching
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Chronic stress & chronic survival mode are more common than you think…
In our modern everyday life, chronic survival patterns can present in so many different forms that don’t look like ‘crisis’ and may not even feel like being in ‘survival mode’. They could show up as being overly productive, perfectionistic, or endlessly self-critical.
Chronic survival can manifest in many different patterns that that quietly hold you back from living your life fully.
You can find a list of more examples below.
- Always being ‘on’ and or on the go
- Perfectionism and over-achieving
- Overwhelm & inner tension
- Not being able to access your creative flow and ideas when you sit down to them
- Feeling like you have to control things
-Inability to relax, even when it’s quiet
- Constant inner critic
- Recurring patterns of old emotions and feelings
Examples of chronic survival mode patterns:
- Ruminating
- Task procrastination
- Inability to connect with your desires
- Feelings of loneliness
- Anxiety
- Challenges in connecting with others
- Chronic muscle tension, stress & inner tension
- Fatigue & emotional drain
- Feeling sluggish & inability to concentrate (brainfog)
- Inability to move forward with change, ideas & plans, even though you really want to
- Feelings of hopelessness and lack of self-confidence
- Poor quality sleep & poor digestion
- Difficulty setting boundaries or staying true to yourself
To name a few…
These patterns aren’t flaws
They’re intelligent responses to past experiences from your autonomic nervous system (or ANS). It has been doing its best to protect you, based on what it learned. So it’s important to honour that they are a reflection of your biology at work, trying to keep you as safe as possible - based on old programming, which may have come from your past experiences, your environment and/or even your ancestors. These patterns are anchored in your subconscious and outside of your rational control.
The vagus nerve plays a key role in this, affecting your wellbeing, emotions, self-connection, authentic connection with others and much more.
This understanding comes from Polyvagal Theory, founded by renowned Dr. Stephen Porges, which describes the ANS, including the vagus nerve, and how it functions.
Why work with the vagus nerve?
The vagus nerve is a part of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), and is fundamental to our experience of life and how we move through it. I like to use the analogy of a tree: the ANS could be compared to the roots of a tree. They are invisible, but critical for health, functioning, nourishment, stability, growth and connection far beyond what the eye can see.
If you’re feeling stuck, tense, or disconnected — whether from yourself, from others, or from your desires — working with the vagus nerve can support you in shifting these patterns at the root.
“You can’t force your way out of a chronic survival pattern. But your body can be gently invited back into safety — through deep listening, attuned support, and the quiet recalibration that the SSP helps create.”
You can download a brochure here going into more detail about why it can make sense to work with the vagus nerve. Knowledge about the vagus nerve and its role in the ANS, and how you can work with it to feel better, can help you change how you navigate life and how you feel in life from the roots up.
The SSP offers a gentle way to repattern these responses by retuning the vagus nerve with music.
The SSP helps your vagus nerve rebalance and reprogramme with specially formulated music. Through this carefully formulated music, the SSP supports your body in moving from protective states of stress, tension, and disconnection into a greater sense of calm, connection, presence, resilience and possibility. It helps your nervous system to shift int greater inner peace, clarity, wellbeing, joy and inner harmony - and much more!
The SSP: “A distilled essence of trust and safety in audio form…”
Dr Stephen Porges, developer of the SSP (and founder of Polyvagal Theory, which explores the role of the vagus nerve and the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in how we respond to life and how our body functions), describes the SSP as “a distilled essence of trust and safety in audio form.”
You deserve to feel safe, supported, and at home within yourself.
If you feel a quiet yes inside, the SSP may be a gentle next step to explore. Whether you're seeking to rebalance from deep within, reconnect with your inner knowing, break out of old emotional patterns, or simply loosen long-held stress and tension — I’d be honoured to guide you.
You can take the first step by exploring the SSP-Coaching Packages below, or simply reach out for a connection call. There’s no rush — just your own timing, your own rhythm, your own unfolding.
Who am I to be offering this?
I’m a certified SSP Provider with a background in medicine, somatic & mindfulness based psychotherapy, somatic trauma therapy, sound healing, spiritual life coaching, constellations and more.
The Safe and Sound Protocol changed my life deeply - it helped me make personal shifts that I hadn’t even dreamed were possible.
I was so convinced about it that I did the certification (despite the long list of trainings I had already had). That’s why I now offer a separate SSP-Coaching package alongside my Soulful Embodiment & Sacred Soul Work Sessions.