A lot of the women who find their way here are already doing “all the right things.” They’ve been to the specialists, they’ve changed their diet, they’ve tried different supplements, they’re tracking their cycle, they’re exercising in the ways they’ve been told will help.

And while of that is very important, there’s still this sense that something deeper is going on.

What we’re looking at in Club Soma is what sits underneath the stress-related physical symptoms and behaviours, which is often the nervous system, and the way your body has learned to respond to stress, safety, pressure, and past experiences that haven’t fully been processed.

Because your body doesn’t separate those things. It holds them all together.

So what can show up as physical symptoms of chronic stress is often also connected to patterns like people-pleasing, burnout, over-functioning, emotional overwhelm, difficulty regulating your emotions, or feeling like you’re constantly in reaction to life rather than actually in it.

For some women, that looks like being incredibly high functioning on the outside. The one who gets everything done, who holds it all together, but is running on empty underneath it all.

For other women, it looks like feeling more shut down. Struggling to speak up, struggling to hold boundaries, often slipping into caretaking or self-abandoning in relationships, and not really feeling anchored in their own voice.

They look different, but the root is often the same. A nervous system that has learned to survive rather than feel safe.