Notes for My Nervous System

About Notes for My Nervous System

Welcome, love. This isn’t a podcast to help you get your shit together. It’s a space to remind you: you were never broken to begin with. What you’re listening to now is Notes for My Nervous System. short transmissions for when you forget how to feel, or when feeling too much makes you want to disappear. I’m not here to motivate you. I’m here to slow you down. These episodes are not meant for background noise. They’re for coming back to your body. You might hear poetry. You might hear silence. You might hear something your cells remember. All I ask is that you meet yourself as you are. Not how you think you should be. You don’t need to change to be welcome here. You just need to breathe. So take a moment. Let the sound land. Let your body soften. Let this be the beginning of a new kind of listening. Welcome home. sensualinstitute.substack.com (https://sensualinstitute.substack.com/s/rituals-for-sensational-living?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

I AWAKE

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 May 2025

Latest episode

29 May 2026

Latest episodes

12 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 May 2026

   When softness touches the place you learned to ignore

   That is what this podcast episode is about. The moment when softness opens a door, and behind that door is the hunger you folded away or postponed into “later.” But the nervous system does not heal in later. And the heart does not stop wanting because you postponed it. This episode is not self-help fluff. It is not healing woo-woo. It is a precise, intimate look at why pleasure sometimes makes us ache, and how to listen to that ache before it turns into shame, panic, or another pattern. And when you listen, notice what touches you. Not what sounds impressive. What touches you. That is usually where the real doorway is. With devotion,Camilla This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sensualinstitute.substack.com (https://sensualinstitute.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

2. 

   18 May 2026

   Capacity Expansion Begins Where Your Nervous System Says No

   You know that moment when the life you say you want starts happening? Not as a dream anymore.Not as a beautiful fantasy you can visit when everything feels too small. But as decisions. Visibility. Money. Responsibility. People depending on you. A calendar that suddenly reflects the size of your desire. And instead of feeling expanded and ready, your body says: Absolutely f*****g not. Your emotions riot.Your mind starts spinning.Your nervous system reaches for the nearest exit.And the dream that felt so alive yesterday suddenly feels like a threat. That’s what this episode is about. The moment when wanting more meets the part of you that does not yet feel safe holding more. Some people call this capacity expansion. I refuse to treat capacity expansion like a mindset hack. So in this episode we meet it as an embodied threshold. Because it is one thing to have a dream.It is another thing to sit down with the spreadsheets, the emails, the launch plan, the conversations, the details, and feel your whole nervous system and your mind shouting: This is too much.I don’t know how to hold this.I don’t know how to become this person. And that’s where the real work begins. Not in the fantasy.Not in the vision board.But in the moment where your future starts asking things of you. This episode was recorded from that exact place in me. On the couch, in fear, looking at the size of what I desire and realizing that my nervous system had reached an edge. And instead of pushing through, I sat with the part of me that was afraid. Not like a coach.Not like a motivational quote.But like someone I love. Because fear does not always mean no.Contraction does not always mean stop.Overwhelm does not always mean your desire was wrong. Sometimes it simply means: This is new.This matters.We have not held this much before.Please go slowly enough that I can come with you. That, to me, is the beginning of capacity expansion. Not becoming fearless.But becoming less afraid of being afraid. Not abandoning the trembling parts.But learning how to bring them with you, without letting them drive. In this episode, I’m talking about what happens when the life you want becomes real enough to require you, and how we can begin to hold more desire, more visibility, more responsibility, more pleasure, more truth, and more aliveness without leaving ourselves behind. Listen when you have a quiet moment. And before you do, maybe place a hand somewhere on your body and ask gently: What part of me is afraid of the life I say I want? Not to fix it.Not to analyze it. Just to begin listening. Because listening is where safety begins. And safety is where expansion becomes possible. My name is Camilla Wellton I’m a mom, a lover of beauty, a multiskilled designer and I’m the creator of the sensual hero’s journey. If my words touched you, I’m grateful. If they got you curious for more then explore the other episodes of my podcast and visit I-awake.com (http://I-awake.com) to learn more about The Sensual hero’s journey. It’s a guided ascent from survival mode to being turned on by your life. The opposite of a quick fix and sensual in the sense that your body is always included in the conversation and this is what I believe you’ve been waiting for your entire life. Thank you for listening This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sensualinstitute.substack.com (https://sensualinstitute.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

3. 

   17 Feb 2026

   If something painful happens and you can’t fall apart...

   There’s a kind of pain that doesn’t explode. It doesn’t scream. It doesn’t ruin your life. It just… stays. It shows up quietly. When you’re alone at night. When someone touches you and you feel slightly elsewhere. When something good happens, and it lands flatter than it should. This isn’t dramatic trauma. It’s unfinished physiology. When something overwhelming happens and you can’t fight, can’t leave, can’t fully feel it, your nervous system adapts. Adaptation is brilliant. But adaptation is not completion. If your body mobilizes, heart racing, muscles tight, ready to act, and that action gets blocked, the energy doesn’t disappear. It gets held. If something painful happens and you can’t fall apart because you have to stay functional, the shutdown doesn’t complete either. What can’t move through, stays in the background. Not loud. Just a hum. That hum might feel like: A tight throat when you try to be vulnerable. A heaviness in your chest when you slow down. A subtle distance from pleasure. A quiet sense that something is missing. You might call it personality. But often it’s protection. Protection that never got released becomes identity. You think, “This is just how I am.” But often it’s, “This is how I learned to stay safe.” Here’s something important: The ache often resurfaces when life gets safer, not more dangerous. You slow down, and instead of relief, you feel heaviness. You enter a stable relationship, and grief rises. You achieve something, and feel emptiness instead of joy. Nothing is wrong. Your body is trying to complete something old. Completion needs two things at the same time: activation and safety. You have to feel the emotion, and feel safe enough not to be overwhelmed by it. Insight alone isn’t enough. Understanding why it hurt doesn’t finish the cycle. The body needs a new experience. It needs to feel and survive differently. This work is subtle. It looks like staying with sadness ten seconds longer than you usually would. Letting anger move through your chest without suppressing it or acting it out. Allowing someone to see your vulnerability without immediately stabilizing them. Small increments. Repeated. That’s how baseline shifts. And slowly, the ache softens. Not into euphoria. Into capacity. You can feel more without bracing. Connect without pre-withdrawing. Experience pleasure without waiting for it to disappear. The ache stayed because you survived. Your system did exactly what it was designed to do. Protect you. Now you don’t need to erase it. You don’t need to shame it. You just need to meet it. Take a breath. Notice if there’s a subtle tone in your body right now. Not dramatic. Just a background hum. That’s not your enemy. That’s where the next movement begins. If this gave you relief, there’s more of that to be had darling. Visit my site I Awake (http://I-awake.com) for more! If you live in Stockholm, and you are a woman, I want you to feel very invited to join me on The Motherhole gatherings held at the sensual institute. Visit The Motherhole (http://Themotherhole.com) And The Sensual institute (https://sensualinstitute.com/events/) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sensualinstitute.substack.com (https://sensualinstitute.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

4. 

   26 Jan 2026

   There’s a kind of tired that doesn’t come from doing too much.

   It comes from holding yourself together. From staying reasonable. From adapting. From living a life that mostly works, but never quite lets you land. If that sentence makes something in you tighten, soften, or go quiet, this audio is for you. I recorded today’s podcast for the moment that rarely gets named, because it doesn’t look dramatic enough to count. You’re not burned out. You’re not falling apart. You’re just done pushing yourself through your own life. In this episode, I don’t offer advice. I don’t tell you what to fix or change. I don’t rush you toward clarity. I speak to the part of you that’s been functioning for a long time, quietly carrying rules and expectations you never consciously chose, and starting to sense that they no longer fit. If you’ve been feeling slightly out of sync with your own life… If your body has been whispering before your mind has words… If something in you knows this isn’t how you want to keep living, but you don’t yet know what comes next… Press play. Let it meet you where you actually are. And then, if something in you wants to go further come HERE (https://sensualinstitute.com/the-soft-return-landing/#sample) and you’ll find the free guided audio body practice I mention in this podcast episode No pressure. No performance. Just a place to listen. With love, Camilla This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sensualinstitute.substack.com (https://sensualinstitute.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

5. 

   12 Jan 2026

   Come closer. This story is for adults...

   Today I want to share something different. A story. A story for adults. In many traditions around the world, wisdom wasn’t passed down through concepts or instructions. It was passed through stories. People sat close to each other. By firelight. Bodies warm. Listening together. Stories were how we learned what couldn’t be taught directly. How we remembered things the nervous system understands long before the mind does. This is one of those stories. It’s a creation myth I wrote, drawing on the ancient names Eros and Ananke. They appear in old mythologies, but this is my telling. Not a reconstruction of the past, but a story shaped for the modern body. Because we need new stories that can speak to the way we actually live now. To our pace. Our hunger. Our exhaustion. Our longing to feel whole without burning out or going numb. I wrote this story because myth makes us larger. It connects our everyday drives, our bodies, our relationships, to something older, deeper, and more spacious than personal psychology alone. Not to escape reality, but to inhabit it more fully. This story doesn’t try to teach you anything. It doesn’t tell you what to do. It simply remembers. I invite you to listen the way people used to listen. Not to understand. But to let your body recognize something it already knows. You don’t need to concentrate. You don’t need to analyze. Just listen. Some stories aren’t meant to be consumed. They’re meant to sit beside you for a while. This is one of those. If something in you stirred while listening, if you felt the pull between wanting and holding, beginning and staying, then you’ve already touched what I call the Sensual Hero’s Journey. It’s the larger map this story belongs to. A way of understanding how we leave ourselves, and how we return, through the body, the nervous system, and lived experience. You can find it HERE (https://i-awake.com), if you want to enter your myth With love, Camilla This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sensualinstitute.substack.com (https://sensualinstitute.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

6. 

   3 Jan 2026

   When was the last time you let yourself stay with a feeling without adjusting it?

   Not improving it. Not explaining it. Not calming it down so it fits better. Just staying. Most of the time, you move on. You do what works. You keep things okay. And that’s not wrong. But sometimes something doesn’t move with you. A sensation. A hesitation. A quiet “wait”. That’s usually the moment you step over yourself. Not deliberately. Not dramatically. Just fast enough not to feel it. The Soft Return exists for that exact moment. Not to make you braver. Not to give you insight. But to let you notice what happens when you don’t step in so quickly to adjust yourself. The Soft Return is a short, body-led journey. Something you move through slowly, over a few days. Reading. Writing. Listening. Feeling. No fixing. No performing. No pushing. If this stayed with you a second longer than you expected, i’ve prepared a guided audio journey for you. You’ll find the audio at the end of the page when you click on the link below. 👉 CLICK HERE DARLING (https://sensualinstitute.com/the-soft-return-landing/) With devotion Camilla This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sensualinstitute.substack.com (https://sensualinstitute.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

7. 

   27 Dec 2025

   You’re doing everything right. Why doesn’t it feel real?

   If you’re listening to this and something in you is saying yes, it’s probably not because any of this is new. It’s because something you’ve felt for a long time just got words. Most of us don’t realise how many choices we’re still making from rules we never consciously chose. We don’t think about the rules. We just live with the consequences. Life works, but it doesn’t quite land. Closeness happens, but it doesn’t really reach. Pleasure shows up, but it slips away. Nothing is obviously wrong. And still, something keeps missing. The Soft Return isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about seeing what’s been shaping you without you noticing. And once you see that, it’s hard to go back to not seeing it. I created The Soft Return as a 7-day, body-led journal for the moment when you realise you’re tired of managing your life from rules you didn’t choose, and you want to live from something more honest, more intimate, more alive. If this audio stirred something in you, don’t rush past it. And don’t talk yourself out of it. You can explore (https://sensualinstitute.com/the-soft-return-landing)The Soft Return (https://sensualinstitute.com/the-soft-return-landing) 👉 HERE (https://sensualinstitute.com/the-soft-return-landing) You’ll find more information, FAQ, a free sample including the first chapter, its questions and the guided audio body practice I recorded for you. Sometimes the shift doesn’t come from trying harder. It comes from finally seeing what’s been holding your reins in the background. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sensualinstitute.substack.com (https://sensualinstitute.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

8. 

   11 Dec 2025

   When your body learns to live love-starved

   …and still feel something in you shrinking from the inside. A quiet emptiness. A slow dimming. A subtle tightening around the places where warmth should land. People assume love-starved means lacking romance, or intimacy, or closeness. But your body defines love differently. To your nervous system, love is presence. Consistency. Attunement. A rhythm you can trust. And when that rhythm is missing, or unreliable, or only available in small unpredictable doses, the body recalibrates. It stops reaching. It stops asking. It stops expecting to be met. Not because you don’t want love. But because somewhere inside, you learned that wanting meant waiting, and waiting meant pain. So your system found a workaround. It made numbness efficient. It made low-grade longing livable. It taught you how to function on emotional crumbs, calling it independence. But here is something most people never tell you: Being love-starved doesn’t make you unworthy. It makes you adaptive. Your body protected you with withdrawal. Your heart protected you with silence. Your chemistry protected you with minimal production of hope. You survived a drought by lowering your desire for water. And yet the truth quietly remains: you were built for deeper nourishment. Not intensity. Not chaos. Not grand gestures. Just steady warmth. Just consistent presence. Just enough softness that your body remembers what it feels like to be received instead of tolerated. If you feel the tug of this that faint ache that says “I want more, but I don’t know how to want it safely” you’re not regressing. You’re thawing. You’re coming back to the part of you that still believes in being held without having to earn it. Slowly. Gently. At the pace your body trusts. And if you want a small doorway into that return, a way to begin meeting the places inside you that stopped expecting nourishment… I created something for you. A 7 day journal called Love starved. And i’m giving you first chapter, its 4 prompts, and an audio guided body practice that help the words land in your nervous system . Free, so you can feel what you’re stepping into before you say yes to anything else. The link is below: Love starved 7 day journal (https://sensualinstitute.com/tired-of-being-love-starved/) With tenderness, Camilla This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sensualinstitute.substack.com (https://sensualinstitute.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

9. 

   23 Jun 2025

   How long have you been putting off feeling good?

   The episode explores how individuals postpone pleasure and emphasizes the importance of incorporating small moments of softness to build capacity for pleasure, even amidst chaos.

10. 

    22 May 2025

    But maybe you were taught to ignore it

    This episode explores the concept of ignoring one's nervous system and its potential impact on well-being.

11. 

    19 May 2025

    Your mind was never the enemy.

    This episode explores the concept of the mind as a space for thoughts to pass through, encouraging listeners to practice awareness and kindness towards their thoughts rather than trying to control them.

12. 

    13 May 2025

    When You Feel Far from Yourself

    This episode explores feelings of detachment and strategies for reconnecting with oneself.

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