Burnout, trauma residue, somatic dysregulation, sleep collapse, cognitive fog. A structured 90 days back to a grounded state. For the women who held it together for twenty years and woke up unable to anymore.
Nervous System Regulation is a 90-day, 1:1 functional medicine programme run by Christine Phillips of Health Yourself, Bryanston, for women aged 35–58 in burnout or chronic nervous-system dysregulation — sleep collapse, cognitive fog, trauma residue, the body that ran on stress hormones for twenty years and ran out of capacity.
This is not therapy and does not replace it: it is the somatic and nutritional layer, built on the Nervous System Reset protocol, and it runs alongside your therapist, psychiatrist or prescribing doctor. It is led by Christine Phillips, Board Certified Integrative Nutrition & Functional Medicine Health Coach, in practice since 2009.
You used to be the dependable one. The one who got it all done, held the family, ran the business, kept the calendar. One day you woke up and you couldn't. The simplest tasks felt insurmountable. The smallest sounds set you off. Sleep stopped happening, then started happening at the wrong times. You cried in the car for no reason. Your body felt like a stranger's.
This is what late-stage nervous system dysregulation looks like in high-functioning women. It is not anxiety. It is not depression. It is not weakness. It is a body that ran on stress hormones for ten or twenty years and finally ran out of the capacity to keep doing that.
There is a way back. It is structured, somatic, nutritional, and slow. It works. This programme runs that protocol over 90 days.
We stop the bleeding. Sleep becomes the priority. Diet shifts to calm not stimulate. The daily somatic practice begins. Most women report “the first week of real sleep in months” by week 4.
We rebuild what was depleted. Bloods get re-tested. Targeted supplements layered in. Strength returns slowly. Cognition starts to come back.
We rebuild capacity to engage with life again — but on different terms. The boundaries you'll need to keep what you've gained. A long-term plan you can run on your own.
This is not therapy. Therapy is the cognitive layer; this is the somatic and nutritional layer. The two work beautifully together. If you have a therapist or psychiatrist, we work alongside them, not in their place.
This programme is built on Nervous System Reset — read the protocol page for the clinical detail.
Yes. This 90-day programme is for women in burnout, run 1:1 by Christine Phillips at the Health Yourself rooms in Bryanston, Johannesburg, or on Zoom, with WhatsApp support between sessions. It is the somatic and nutritional layer, not therapy, and runs alongside your therapist or doctor.
No. Somatic therapy is a psychotherapy delivered by a trained therapist. This programme uses a polyvagal-informed daily practice alongside nutrition and sleep work, and for trauma processing Christine refers to therapists she trusts.
It does not have to be one or the other. This programme is not therapy; it works alongside your therapist, psychologist or psychiatrist, not in their place. If anxiety is affecting your daily life, speak to your doctor first.
This programme works with the body that has run on stress hormones for years. The intake includes bloods such as cortisol rhythm, and sessions run in Bryanston or on Zoom for women anywhere in South Africa. Christine is a functional medicine health coach, not a doctor, and works alongside yours.
If the work fits, we map the right entry point together.