What happens when self-care becomes another way to override ourselves? In this conversation, somatic movement educator and author Nahid de Belgeonne joins me to examine how the culture of optimization, regulation, and self-improvement can quietly pull us further away from our own signals. We talk about high-functioning anxiety, the identity built around pushing harder, and why mistrusting the body makes us easier to manipulate — by systems, by power structures, and by the wellness industry itself. Nahid offers a grounded reframe: you don’t unlearn who you’ve been — you introduce new learning into the nervous system. This is not about escaping the real world. It’s about building the capacity to stay in it without abandoning yourself.
What does it actually mean to regulate in a world that feels increasingly dysregulated?
In this episode, I sit down with somatic movement educator and author Nahid de Belgeonne to explore the nervous system not as a self-improvement project, but as a doorway back to discernment.
Nahid is the creator of The Human Method™ and The Soothe Programme, a 12-week somatic approach designed for high-functioning people who are successful on the outside and quietly bracing on the inside. Before this work, she built her identity around composure, capability, and chronic motion. A near-death experience forced a reckoning. What emerged was a body-first understanding of regulation that challenges much of modern wellness culture.
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This conversation is a continuation of a larger inquiry on this show: what does it mean to live truthfully underneath inherited assumptions about success, productivity, and worth?
If wellness has ever felt like another performance, this episode is for you.
Connect with Nahid
Substack: The Soothe Club
Instagram: @thehumanmethoduk
Programme: The Soothe Programme (12-week nervous system recalibration)
Connect with The Truth Is: @thetruthis_podcast
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