Become Best Friends With Your Nervous System
This practical e-journal will show you how to regulate yourself and bring you back to safety, despite of everything that is going on around you. In fact, if you are in an activated state, it will bring you back to groundedness as you are reading it. With it's additional strategies for relationship and conflict resolution, you will get all the tools that you ever need to improve the quality of your life and soothe your soul.
REVIEW BY EMMA:
Michala Storm’s Become Best Friends With Your Nervous System does something quietly radical:
It removes the moral judgement from distress.
Rather than treating anxiety, shutdown, or emotional reactivity as problems to be fixed, the journal frames them as understandable responses from a system shaped by experience. T
his shift alone makes the book feel less like self-help and more like a re-education in self-trust.
The journal is designed to meet the reader mid-storm, not once calm has been achieved. Its layout, language, and pacing appear intentionally crafted to slow the nervous system through engagement rather than instruction.
Storm avoids commanding verbs and instead uses invitational language, allowing the body to respond at its own tempo. This creates a reading experience that feels grounding in real time, particularly for those who struggle to apply techniques once they are already overwhelmed.
What distinguishes this work from many regulation guides is its resistance to oversimplification. Storm acknowledges that safety is not always accessible on demand, especially for individuals with long-term stress or trauma histories.
The exercises therefore focus less on “calming down” and more on recognising where the body is in the moment. This validation reduces internal resistance and allows regulation to emerge organically rather than through force.
The sections addressing relationships are especially insightful.
Storm explores how nervous systems shape communication long before words are spoken, influencing tone, timing, and interpretation. Conflict is reframed not as personal failure, but as a collision of unregulated systems. By encouraging awareness of internal states during interpersonal moments, the journal offers a subtle but powerful route towards healthier connection.
Importantly, the book does not demand consistency or completion.
It allows for abandonment and return, mirroring the reality of healing itself. This flexibility makes it suitable for readers who have previously felt overwhelmed or inadequate when engaging with structured self-improvement programmes.
Become Best Friends With Your Nervous System ultimately reads as an act of permission:
Permission to slow down, to listen inwardly, and to stop measuring progress by external standards. It is a companion for those seeking steadiness rather than transformation, and for anyone ready to replace self-criticism with curiosity.