From Tension to Truth:

Self-Led Recovery & Purpose

A steady online course for when life has you stuck or off course.

If you’ve been pushing through, yet still feel stuck in some way, you’re not alone or failing.
Often, what’s missing isn’t more effort, it’s understanding how to work with your nervous system and reshape your experience.

This course offers practical, embodied tools grounded in neuroscience and lived experience, designed to help you gently shift from chronic pain, tension, confusion or survival into relief, steadiness, clarity and renewed healing.

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Our approach

At Nourished Minds & Bodies, we integrate body-based care and trauma-informed mental health to support lasting, meaningful change. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, we focus on nervous system regulation, embodied awareness, and restoring internal safety... creating the conditions where recovery and clarity can naturally re-emerge.

From Tension to Truth: Course Content

  1. Welcome & Introduction

    3 lessons
    1. Dr Colin Clarey & Frankie Latimer
    2. Course Introduction
    3. My Accident & Recovery Story

  2. Module 1: Self-Leadership and the Recovery Journey

    5 lessons
    1. Important Information - Mental Health Disclaimer
    2. Workbook Text and Downloadable PDF
    3. Lesson 1: Self-Leadership & It's Relationship to Recovery
    4. Lesson 2: Self-Leadership as Self-Alignment
    5. Lesson 3: From Pain and Pressure to Progress and Possibility

  3. Module 2: Fostering Self-Leadership & Recovery through Self-Awareness

    4 lessons
    1. Lesson 1: Releasing the Pressure to Perform
    2. Lesson 2: The Practice of Awareness & Interoception
    3. Lesson 3: From Fixing to Listening
    4. Lesson 4: Recognising Disconnection & the Call to Realign

  4. Module 3: Understanding Neural Tension & the Power of Self-Regulation

    6 lessons
    1. Lesson 1: Understanding Tension & How it Gets in the Way
    2. Lesson 2: Vagal Tone: How the Body Signals Safety, Stress and Shutdown
    3. Lesson 3: What Is My Baseline Vagal Tone?
    4. Lesson 4: Developing Interoception
    5. Lesson 5: Down Regulation Exercises
    6. Lesson 6: Up Regulation Exercises

  5. Module 4: Regulating Pain through Rewiring & Release.

    4 lessons
    1. Lesson 1: Practices for Insight & Relief
    2. Lesson 2: The 5-minute Being With Practice
    3. Lesson 3: Movement as Medicine
    4. Lesson 4: The Art of Letting Go

  6. Module 5: The Messages Beneath the Discomfort

    2 lessons
    1. Lesson 1: When Stillness Reveals What's Important
    2. Lesson 2: Pain as Messenger

  7. Module 6: Leadership from Within

    3 lessons
    1. Lesson 1: Understanding Your Inner Compass
    2. Lesson 2: Techniques for Reconnecting with Your Inner Compass
    3. Lesson 3: Recovery is a Resourced Process

  8. Module 7: Discerning Direction from the Inside Out

    3 lessons
    1. Lesson 1: The Concept of Ikigai
    2. Lesson 2: From Ikigai to Inner Knowing
    3. Lesson 3: Discerning Recovery Choices & Life Direction

  9. Module 8: Living a Self-Led Life

    2 lessons
    1. The Final Lesson: Designing, Creating and Living a Self-Led Life
    2. Course Summary - Action, Choice Reference Sheet

  10. Bonus Module - Advanced Repatterning & Release Tools

    4 lessons
    1. Extended "Being With" Meditation
    2. Advanced Regulation & Release Techniques
    3. Self-Compassion and Reflective Exercises
    4. Bibliography & Professional References
Dr. Colin Clarey uses his extensive experience as a chiropractor, mentor and facilitator to help people reconnect with their inner compass through healthy movement and self-inquiry. Blending body-based awareness, nervous system regulation and purpose-driven coaching, he supports clarity, confidence and authentic direction. Whether you're navigating life transitions or recovering from chronic pain.
To learn more about Colin and his recovery mentoring click here: nourishedmindsbodies.com.au/selfled-recovery
To book appointments with Colin in Glen Iris, Melbourne for chiropractic care please follow this link: flexspinal.com.au
Frankie Latimer is an accredited mental health social worker with post-graduate certification and studies in both psychological and evidence-based somatic approaches and nervous system therapies. She utilises a variety of approaches including EMDR, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS) and a holistic approach to her therapy practice, informed by her professional background, ongoing professional development and her personal journey.
To learn more about Frankie or to contact her about her psychological work click here: nourishedmindsbodies.com.au/therapy
If you’re navigating life tension, chronic pain, burnout, or a disruption that has left you feeling stuck in your recovery or lost at sea, this course was created for you. It offers a structured, self-paced pathway to help regulate your nervous system, reduce internal pressure and gently reconnect with your clarity and direction. It brings together embodied practices and self-leadership tools to support meaningful, sustainable change, renewed healing and purpose.
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"From Tension to Truth: Self-Led Recovery & Purpose is a rare bridge between clinical insight and embodied self-leadership. Drawing on decades of hands-on experience and lived recovery, it integrates nervous system science, somatic practice and purpose clarity into a practical pathway for people navigating pain, burnout or life transition. Rather than trying to fix you, it helps you regulate, rebuild internal safety and rediscover your own compass. It reframes recovery not as something to survive... but as a return to agency, alignment and self-trust."

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