Nervous System Map | A Visual Guide to Understanding Stress Responses, Trauma, and Nervous System

A metaphor to understand your nervous system to understand overwhelm and stress without shame or confusion!

The Nervous System Map is a visual explanation of how your body responds to stress, trauma, and overwhelm, and what actually happens in each nervous system state. 

Instead of asking "What's wrong with me?” This map helps you understand “What state am I in, and what do I need to do right now?” 

This map is helpful if you: 

• Experience anxiety, shutdown, overwhelm, or emotional swings
• Live with chronic stress, illness, pain, or trauma responses 
• Want to understand fight, flight, or freeze states
• Learn best visually and need concepts laid out simply

Designed to support learning, self-reflection, therapeutic support, and self-support, it's a resource that turns complex nervous system concepts into something accessible, compassionate, and usable. 

What you get: 

• A 3-page illustrated downloadable PDF visual aid map that makes the nervous system understandable at a glance
• Diagrams of rest and digest, fight, flight, freeze, and mixed states
• Strategies for supporting each state 
• Fillable worksheet to record your own observations of your cues and favourite supports

Many nervous system resources are too simplistic or overly clinical. This map is designed to be easily understood, referenced, and returned to. Pair it with journaling, therapy, somatic work, or reflection and revisit it during moments of stress to orient yourself. It is based on neuro-inclusive trauma theories, somatic experiencing, co-regulation and emotional expression. 

Want more of the right support? This Map is also included in the Nervous System Theory Workbook, the Chronic Illness Recovery bundle, and the Get Unstuck Webinar bundle where it is explained in detail!

◄ PRODUCT SIZING ►
📏8.5 x 11 inch PDF, 3 pages
📥 Format: High-quality PDF digital download
🖨 Printing Options: Print for home or use digitally on a tablet

Limited Use:
This product is a digital download for personal use only. Sharing, redistribution or professional use without proper licensing is not permitted. Want to use this with clients, students or groups? Purchase a Commercial License separately:

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