The Art of Self-Attunement

This short, concise ebook helps you learn the skill of self-attunement.

Your body is always sending you signals about your needs, but if you ignore them or override them for long enough, you'll stop hearing them. Not meeting your needs for long periods of time leads to burnout and depression.

This book shows you how to reverse that process so you can respond to your needs on a moment by moment basis. This is a foundational skill for healing trauma/CPTSD, reversing self-neglect, or undoing neurodivergent masking.

Learn how to recognize and validate what you actually need instead of what you think you should need. This practice also helps you develop a strong internal sense of boundaries over time, because you know what works for you and what doesn't.

Topics covered:

• What is self-care really about?
• Why don’t I already know what I need?
• What attunement is (and how it's different from hypervigilance)
• The beliefs that make needs invisible to you
• The relationship between feelings and needs
• How to tell the difference between a need and a strategy (and why it matters)
• What to do when your needs conflict with each other or someone else's needs
• Why you feel like your needs are "too much" and what to do about it
• Appendix: Journal prompts, List of Needs, Needs vs Strategies, List of Helpful/Unhelpful Beliefs

This is a beginner-friendly, practical, step-by-step guide on how to do the inner work to create a supportive and healthy relationship with yourself.

Written by Emma Arbogast - Find more of my writing at joyninja.com