From Tension to Truth
A self-led audio course for recovery, relief and clarity.
For those navigating pain, crisis, uncertainty or a deeper search for meaning.
A year ago, I set out to create a course that would support people suffering through crisis or chronic pain.
But what I ended up creating was something much larger.
Together with my partner Frankie Latimer, a mental health professional herself, I developed a tightly packed audio course for anyone who feels they are standing at a turning point.
You may be living with chronic pain.
You may be moving through grief, burnout, heartbreak, disillusionment or a major life change.
You may be questioning your direction, your work, your identity, or what truly matters now.
Or you may simply feel that the endless scrolling, noise and distraction of modern life has pulled you too far away from yourself.
This course is an invitation to pause, listen more deeply, and begin finding your way forward again.
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Is this course for you?
This course may be for you if you are:
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Living with chronic pain, tension or nervous system overwhelm
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Moving through crisis, heartbreak, burnout or uncertainty
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Feeling disconnected from your body, your direction or your deeper sense of self
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Seeking new meaning, purpose or a career change
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Tired of pushing through, overthinking, or trying to fix yourself
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Ready to reconnect with what truly matters to you
You don’t need to have all the answers.
You simply need a willingness to stop overriding yourself and begin listening in a new way.
This is not about fixing yourself
This isn’t a course about becoming someone new.
It’s not about forcing positivity, chasing peak performance, or adding another self-improvement project to your already full life.
It’s more a course about learning how to listen and connect more deeply with your own bodily intelligence.
It’s about softening what has been held too tightly.
It’s about learning how to steady yourself, understand yourself, and begin leading yourself in your recovery and your life from a wiser place.
What you’ll learn
Inside the course, I share a blend of professional insight, lived experience and practical skills you can begin using straight away.
You’ll be guided through ideas and practices to help you:
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Calm and steady your nervous system
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Reconnect with your body’s intelligence
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Work with pain, tension and emotional overwhelm more wisely
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Understand the deeper messages beneath your symptoms or discontent
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Rebuild trust in your own inner compass
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Discern your next best step
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Refocus on what truly matters
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Begin living with more clarity, steadiness and purpose
This is a course for relief, but also for reconnection.
It is for recovery, but also for direction.
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  A course born from both clinical experience and lived experience
My name is Colin Clarey.
I’ve been a chiropractor, mentor and recovery coach for over 30 years.
Over that time, I’ve worked with thousands of people navigating pain, stress, injury, uncertainty and change.
But this course is not just professional for me. It’s deeply personal.
I’ve recovered from heartbreak, loss of professional identity, and two significant spinal injuries.
I know what it is to feel stopped in your tracks.
I know what it is to lose the life you thought you were living.
And I know what it is to slowly find your way back — not by forcing harder, but by listening more honestly.
Why I created this course
Many of us are carrying more than we realise.
Pain.
Pressure.
Grief.
Disappointment.
Fear about the future.
A sense that the world feels unstable, and that our old ways of coping no longer seem to work.
This course was created for people who are ready to step out of the endless noise and come back into relationship with themselves.
Not perfectly.
Not dramatically.
But steadily, honestly and with compassion.
Because sometimes the way forward begins with learning how to stop, soften, listen, and reconnect with the life that is still calling you.
Begin again from a steadier place
If you’re over the endless scroll…
If you’re tired of feeling distracted, disconnected or pulled away from yourself…
If you want to refocus on what’s important and begin living the life you’re here to live again…
Come and take a look.
This course may be the support you’ve been looking for.
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Course Contents:
Welcome & Introduction
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Meet your mentors Dr Colin Clarey & Frankie Latimer
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My Accident & Recovery Story
Module 1: Self-Leadership and the Recovery Journey
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Lesson 1: Self-Leadership & Its Relationship to Recovery
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Lesson 2: Self-Leadership as Self-Alignment
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Lesson 3: Shifting from Pain and Pressure to Progress and Possibility
Module 2: Fostering Self-Leadership & Recovery through Self-Awareness
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Lesson 1: Releasing the Pressure to Perform
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Lesson 2: The Practice of Self-Awareness & Interoception
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Lesson 3: From Fixing to Listening
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Lesson 4: Recognising Disconnection & the Call to Realign
Module 3: Understanding Neural Tension & Self-Regulation
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Lesson 1: Understanding Neural Tension & How it Gets in the Way
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Lesson 2: Vagal Tone: How the Body Signals Safety, Stress and Shutdown
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Lesson 3: What Is My Baseline Vagal Tone Â
- Lesson 4: Developing Interoception
- Lesson 5: Down Regulation Exercises Â
- Lesson 6: Up Regulation Exercises
Module 4: Regulating Pain through Rewiring & Release
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Lesson 1: Practices for Insight & Relief
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Lesson 2: The 5-minute Being With Practice
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Lesson 3: Movement as Medicine
- Lesson 4:Â The Art of Letting Go
Module 5: The Clarity Beneath the Discomfort
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Lesson 1: When Stillness Reveals What’s Next or Important
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Lesson 2: Pain as Messenger
Module 6: Leadership from Within
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Lesson 1: Understanding Your Inner Compass
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Lesson 2: Techniques for Reconnecting with Your Inner Compass
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Lesson 3: Recovery is a Resourced Process
Module 7: Discerning Direction from the Inside Out
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Lesson 1: The Concept of Ikigai
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Lesson 2: From Ikigai to Inner Knowing
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Lesson 3: Discerning Recovery Choices & Life Direction
Module 8: Living a Self-Led Life
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Designing, Creating and Living a Self-Led Life
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Course Summary & Reference Sheet
Bonus Module: Further Reading, Repatterning & Release Tools
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Advanced Neural Regulation Techniques
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Additional Self-Compassion and Reflective Exercises
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Dr. Colin Clarey uses his extensive experience as a health practitioner, mentor and facilitator to help people remove unwanted tension from their lives and body and reconnect with their inner compass through healthy movement and self-inquiry. Blending body-based awareness, nervous system regulation and purpose-driven coaching, he supports relief, clarity and authentic direction. Whether you're navigating a life crisis, transition or recovering from chronic pain.
To learn more about Colin and his recovery fascilitation here: nourishedmindsbodies.com.au/selfled-recovery
To book appointments with Colin in Glen Iris, Melbourne for chiropractic care please follow this link:Â 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:Â nourishedmindsbodies.com.au/therapy
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