A Healing Chronic Illness Pathway

If you are utilizing this pathway, it is likely that you have felt unwell for a long time.

You likely have a variety of symptoms, involving multiple organ systems, which may include fatigue, pain, inflammation, gastro-intestinal difficulties, or auto-immune responses. You have likely been treated by allopathic medicine without satisfactory results, or symptom alleviation, and may have been negatively impacted by your encounters with a system that is likely to have told you that your problems were psychological in nature. Your distress has likely progressed over time, and it is likely that you may not feel particularly hopeful about improvement. If this sounds familiar, you are in the right place. This pathway is a long-term scaffolding and support to clinical treatment to help you understand and deeply transform your autonomic nervous system, and its emotional and relational processing templates. This pathway should only be utilized with the support of a clinical team. It is complex, long-term, and progressive. It begins with educational films and frameworks, and progresses to sequentially tailored neural exercises that directly address autonomic state.

An Introduction to the Chronic Illness Healing Pathway

7 minutes

If you are experiencing a high degree of present-moment distress, we recommend that you utilize the distress assessment tool to begin identifying your active autonomic state and practices that can help you alleviate discomfort now (if you are new to the learning platform, your clinical team will help walk you through this). When you have a bit more free attention, this learning pathway begins with educational film segments about the Connection system.

Introduction to the Connection System

4 minutes

We explore the deviation from ancestral baselines that has led to our Connection systems not being online.

Introduction to the Evolved Nest

11 minutes

If you'd like to go deeper with an understanding of the Evolved Nest, watch our filmed interview with Dr. Darcia Narvaez, The Evolved Nest.


Our orientation goals so far
  • Introduce you to the 'Healing Chronic Illness' pathway and help you understand how we can support your clinical team
  • You can lean on the learning platform to provide you with profound education from a variety of the world's leading experts in connection, healing, and wellbeing, and access hundreds of individually targeted neural exercises to deepen and enhance your healing journey

    • Our educational goals so far

  • Help you understand the deeper evolutionary context for why so many modern people feel unwell
  • Help you understand that stress and threat responses just happen, but that connection and relaxation must be cultivated
  • Help you understand how our ancestral living contexts supported turning on the connection system, and how modern lifestyles often undermine it
  • Help you understand the connection system is the foundation of wellbeing
  • Help you begin to become familiar with your connection system, and how to focus on turning it on
  • Help you understand the relationship between your inner experience, your relationships, and your connection with Nature– each of which can support turning on your connection system

Think of your connection system as your deepest ally and asset in wellbeing. On this platform, you can explore 43 different facets of the connection system, learning to build new habits that support accessing the neurophysiology of safety, connection, and wellbeing.

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