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An Invitation to Notice: A Guide for Nurturing Your Nervous System for Regulation, Resilience and Rest is a holistic, compassionate and unshaming approach to healing, repair and empowerment. The book integrates education and experiential practice, which are both needed to shift from surviving to thriving in our lives.
The book shares a body-orientated model, offering Eleven ‘Invitations’ which replace the traditional ‘chapters.’ Throughout the book there are carefully curated Invitations to Pause encouraging the reader to slow down and reflect on what has been shared from a body-mind perspective. It is a practical book about noticing the interconnection between the body, brain and mind. Grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience, with Somatic Experiencing and Polyvagal Theory being at the heart of each Invitation.
An Invitation to Notice is a call to pay close attention and increase your curiosity about what is happening in the present moment, both inside of you, and outside of you in a safe and gradual way. When there is stored stress in our nervous system it can manifest as anxiety, fear, procrastination, depression, irritation, road rage, chronic pain, digestive issues, and muscle tension. Our minds can get hijacked by over-thinking, self-doubt, unhelpful beliefs and untrue narratives. An Invitation to Notice will guide you through a ‘bottom-up’ approach of releasing these stored stressors in the body gently.
Understanding how the autonomic nervous system operates is the first stage of noticing. However, in order to witness significant shifts and changes within our own survival stress responses, we must learn how to nurture our own nervous system. Regulation occurs when we know how to relate and attune to our needs. There is a difference between knowing and experiencing. An Invitation to Notice provides you with the tools and techniques to tune in and track your own nervous system for improved flexibility, responsiveness and the agency to create healthy boundaries.
This is more than just a book – An Invitation to Notice is call for community, connection, collaboration, choice, and consent. It is an invitation to transform pain into power and use it for good in the world.
Welcome to An Invitation to Notice! I’m so pleased our paths have crossed and as a self-published author I am deeply grateful for your order.
Warmly,
Michelle xx
BOOK REVIEWS!
What makes this book stand out is the way Michelle translates complex ideas about stress and trauma into guidance that feels accessible and grounded in everyday life. Each chapter offers not just knowledge but also experiential practices encouraging readers to embody the work rather than simply read about it. In this way, the book becomes more than words on a page it becomes a trusted companion for meaningful change.
Reading it, I felt as though I was in the company of someone who understands both the science and the lived reality of stress and trauma. It is a resourceful, compassionate, and practical guide for those navigating recovery, as well as for anyone seeking more balance, resilience, and rest in daily life. I am deeply grateful to have read this book before its release and know it will support many others on their journey.
Siobhan Wilson-McGlinchey, Psychotherapist and Founder of Roe Valley Therapy Centre.
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I loved reading this book. An Invitation to Notice is a refreshingly easy-to-read, compassionate, and practical guide to nurturing the nervous system. It reminds us that resetting ourselves is the starting point for being truly available to others. Written with wisdom and clarity, it offers not just theory but accessible tools for real-life regulation, resilience, and rest, making it both valuable and enjoyable to read.
In our work supporting grieving children and young people, we see every day how vital it is for adults to have this kind of grounding. That’s why we would love to see this book in the hands of all of our parents, teachers, social workers, counsellors and coaches, anyone walking alongside children and families.
It feels less like a manual and more like a gentle companion, a lifeline for anyone carrying the weight of care, personally and professionally. An invaluable resource that I will return to again and again. I will be recommending and gifting this book for many years to come. Congratulations Michelle, you are a gift to the world.
Aine Wallace, CEO, Fresh Minds Education
