FROM REACTION TO AWARENESS
A Guide to Mapping Your Nervous System States
A practical, easy-to-follow workbook to understand your nervous system states, your patterns, and your current emotional capacity.
For women who feel stuck, reactive, overwhelmed, or unsure why certain decisions feel impossible.
How will this guide help you
Understand the five nervous system states and how they show up in you
Identify what becomes harder in each state
Stop mislabeling survival responses as personal failure
Recognize when regulation is needed before decision-making
Build a clear internal reference point
Why is it important to understand and map how the nervous system states show up in you?
Your nervous system shapes what you can access in any moment. That means it directly impacts your behavior, emotions, and thinking.
Survival states limit clarity, choice, and follow-through.
Awareness helps, but without mapping, you keep asking yourself the wrong questions at the wrong time.
This workbook helps you understand what state you are in, what becomes difficult from there, and what regulation is needed before choice.
You might be experiencing this:
You notice behavior patterns repeating.
You understand yourself intellectually, but things don’t shift.
You know something has a cost, yet acting differently feels unavailable.
You’re tired of pushing yourself to decide or change without enough emotional capacity.
What’s missing is not motivation, but an understanding of how your nervous system works and how it influences you every second of every day.
What this workbook is
Many resources explain the nervous system in complex terms. This guide focuses on clarity, simplicity, and real-life application.
Designed to be used slowly and revisited whenever you need. You acquire a guide once, and you can come back to it again and again.
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About Me
I’m Laura Ortiz, a psychologist and somatic coach.
My work focuses on nervous system regulation, embodiment, and decision-making.
I support women in building capacity to relate differently to fear, uncertainty, and change.
work with women who want to move out of survival patterns and develop more internal stability, clarity, and choice.
My approach combines nervous system education, somatic practices, and guided integration over time.
