What Healing Really Looks Like and the nervous system
🌱 What Healing Really Looks Like
This spring season has been a powerful one. After a winter of deep shedding and reflection, many of my clients — and myself included — are learning how to step more fully into their truth. It hasn’t necessarily felt easy, but it has felt necessary.
We often think healing will feel good. But in reality, it’s more about feeling everything.
It’s about adjusting, grieving, recalibrating, and honoring what comes up as we shed the layers that were only ever built to help us survive.
🧠 The Nervous System: Your Gateway to Healing
True healing starts with the nervous system.
That’s because your body can’t rest, digest, or repair when it’s constantly in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.
Your nervous system is always working to keep you safe. But when it’s been stuck in survival mode for too long, it starts responding to everyday stressors as if they were threats. Healing is the process of showing your body that it's safe again. This is what allows us to move out of old trauma responses and into a regulated, grounded state where real change becomes possible.
🎶 How Sound Therapy and Reiki Support Nervous System Regulation
Both sound therapy and Reiki are non-invasive healing modalities that help calm the body, shift brainwave states, and bring the nervous system into balance.
Sound therapy works by using specific frequencies and vibrations to shift your brain from high-alert beta waves into slower, restorative alpha and theta waves. This encourages deep relaxation, nervous system regulation, and emotional release — often without the need to “talk it out.”
Reiki works with your body’s energy centers to release stored tension, bring in balance, and promote healing. Studies have shown that Reiki activates the parasympathetic nervous system (your “rest and restore” state), helping to lower heart rate, reduce anxiety, and ease chronic stress.
Together, these tools support you in becoming more present, more grounded, and more connected to your authentic self. They help the body feel safe — and when the body feels safe, the mind and heart can follow.
🌸 Where You May Be Now
After a season of shedding, it’s now time to integrate. Many of you are tired. That’s normal. Your nervous system is adjusting to safety. It is okay to rest. It is okay to grieve the parts of you that got you through your survival years.
This is the beginning of moving from fight or flight into flow.
💫 How I Can Support You
I offer a range of services to meet you where you are:
Sound Therapy
Reiki
Emotional Release Therapy
Human Design Insight Readings
Mentorship for practitioners or seekers on the healing path
My own journey began with my rock bottom moment (you can read about that on my social media). My healing was non-negotiable — and now, I get to support others as they walk their own path forward.
June is booking up quickly. If you feel called to begin or deepen your healing work, I recommend reserving your session soon.
📘 Free Resource: 3 Day Somatic Reset eBook
I’ve created a free 3-Day Somatic Reset eBook to help you reconnect with your body and regulate your nervous system gently at home.
You’ll find it under the Digital Products section on my website.
This work is life-changing — because your life depends on it.
I’m so honored to be a guide on your journey.
With love and support,
Alyssa Marquis-Ireland
Ireland Intuitive Healing
