Nervous System First.
Helping you close the gap between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming.
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By building the internal capacity to live the life you actually want.
This isn’t surface-level change.
This is the work that reshapes how you live, lead, and grow.
This isn’t theory. It’s your next evolution.
It’s lived, practiced, and integrated through different pathways of support.
One on one
Private, depth-led support
For those wanting tailored, high-touch work.
Nervous System First |The Program
6-month capacity-building program
A nervous system capacity roadmap to heal your nervous system, get unstuck, and build resilience, without rehashing the past, making who you’ve been wrong or settling for surface level fixes.
And through thousands of sessions, conversations, and shared silences—one thread kept echoing again and again:
“What if I never become who I was meant to be?”
"I just don’t know what’s wrong with me or why I am like this.”
This is why I created Nervous System First®.
Not just a course.
Not just mindset.
And definitely not a one-size-fits-all formula.
But a complete pathway, rooted in nervous system science, behaviour change, and sustainable self-leadership.
Built over two decades. Backed by lived experience.
Created to hold your next evolution.
✨ This is the work I lead.
But the story of how I came to it?
That’s here.
Hi, I’m Jo
A coffee-loving, dog-obsessed woman from the high country of New England, NSW, who has always felt like a square peg in a round-hole world.
And for over two decades, I’ve sat with people in their rawest, realest moments. CEOs, creatives, olympic-level athletes, doctors + frontline emergency workers, carers, founders, therapists, mothers, fathers… humans with full lives and even fuller hearts, quietly wondering if there’s more.
People who give deeply, care endlessly, and carry more than anyone realises.
People who are leading, building, holding everything for everyone else, but somewhere along the way, lost touch with how to hold themselves.
I created the program that I kept seeing my clients needed
For years, I watched the same pattern repeat.
• The over-functioning.
• The over-giving.
• The over-thinking.
• The holding everything together until they simply couldn’t anymore.
Not because they weren’t strong.
And not because they didn’t care.
But because something kept happening that saw them overriding themselves, again and again.
They were stuck in a loop that felt automatic.
And the harder they tried to fix it, the more entrenched it seemed to become.
Over time, it became clear:
This wasn’t a mindset issue.
It wasn’t a motivation issue.
And it certainly wasn’t a personality flaw.
It was a nervous system pattern.
Think of it like trying to run the newest operating system on an outdated device.
No matter how much you want it to work, it won’t — until the system running underneath is updated.
So I created Nervous System First.
Not as another tool to try harder.
Not as more knowledge that lives in your head.
But as a way to work with the system underneath the pattern, so change doesn’t rely on willpower.
It becomes embodied.
Sustainable.
Real.
Nervous System First
The 6-month journey to come home to yourself,
steadily, sustainably, for good.
You’re not in full blown crisis mode,
but you’re also never fully at rest.
Always managing.
Always holding more than your share.
Always feeling like you should be coping better, doing better than this.
And there are moments when you feel like you, but they don’t seem to fully stick.
And it’s not long until you’re back in the cycle, the pattern again.
You’ve tried pushing harder.
Setting boundaries.
Talking it through.
Understanding it.
But the pattern still runs.
Because this was never a mindset issue. And it’s not about willpower, motivation or not being disciplined enough either.
It’s about the system underneath the pattern.
In the first 30–90 days, this is what changes:
You start catching the pattern before it takes over.
You feel steadier in your body instead of constantly on edge.
You stop over-functioning automatically.
You begin saying NO and YES, and mean it.
You experience moments of settling, not just distraction.
You see proof that this isn’t “just who you are.”
Not reinvention.
Trajectory change.
And what you take with with you well beyond the program:
You feel at home in yourself.
You trust your internal signals instead of second-guessing them.
You’re no longer living from constant self-monitoring.
You feel capable, without being depleted.
You can feel deeply without being overwhelmed.
You feel resourced by life, not drained by it.
You say no without guilt.
You choose where your energy goes.
You let others carry their own weight.
You engage with life instead of bracing against it.
Your relationships feel reciprocal.
There’s less resentment. More honesty.
Your success doesn’t cost your health or identity.
Your work feels aligned, not extractive.
And in the words of clients who have done this work:
“Life feels fuller. Richer. More mine.” Dean.S
“I’m not just surviving my days anymore.” Laura. A
This is not a fantasy life.
It’s a full life.
A life where you trust yourself to live fully,
in a way your 6-year-old self would feel safe with,
and your 97-year-old self would feel proud of.
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SheSpeaks
FOUND Magazine
Homes North
doTERRA Leadership
Speaking. Writing. Podcast
Beyond my private practice, I share my voice in ways that reach thousands more,
sparking conversations, shifting perspectives, and helping people not only see themselves more clearly, but reconnect with the truth and light that’s been within them all along.
My work doesn’t just stay inside the therapy room.
It lives on stages, in organisations, in community spaces, in books, and in conversations that ripple around the world.
