If this is you

Wired all day, wide awake at 3am.

Fine on paper. Bracing on the inside.

Years of talk therapy, and your body never got the memo.

So tired of managing yourself just to seem okay.

None of this means you're damaged. It means your body is caught in survival...and a body that learned to survive can also learn to rest.

Start where you are

Three doors. Same room. Your pace.

There's no correct sequence here — only what your capacity allows right now.

01 — Learn

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02 — Practice

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Book cover for This Is Your Brain on Trauma

The book · Macmillan · April 2027

This Is Your Brain on Trauma

What is trauma actually doing in your brain and body — and why do so many sincere attempts at healing not reach it? This is the book I needed when I was stuck: the science of survival responses, translated into plain language, and a gentle, practical path for teaching your nervous system that it's safe to stand down.

No jargon or one size fits all path. We start with understanding first; because a body that makes sense to you is a body you can work with.

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What I believe

01

Your body isn't working against you.

Every symptom you're carrying was once a solution. We don't fight your protective responses — we thank them, and update them.

02

Understanding comes first.

You can't regulate a system you've been taught to fear. When your biology makes sense to you, healing stops feeling like guesswork.

03

Slow is the pace of safety.

Nervous systems don't respond to deadlines or discount timers. You'll never find false urgency here — it doesn't heal anything.

Meet Jamie

I explain it this way because I lived it this way.

I'm Jamie McCoy, LCSW, SEP — a licensed psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner specializing in the biology of trauma. For years I looked fine on paper and felt like I was running for my life on the inside. What changed things wasn't more insight. It was finally understanding what my physiology was doing — and learning to work with it instead of overriding it.

That became my life's work: translating what science knows about trauma for the people who need it most. Today it reaches 300,000 readers on Instagram, a small 1:1 practice, a foundational course — and this spring, a book.

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Kind words

“My biggest takeaway is hope for continued healing and freedom. The awareness has been eye opening. The hope for healing is sustained. There’s hope from what I have learned to where I know I can just stay the course and I’ll be able to handle this stuff as time goes on.”

“Since my time with Jamie, I have felt calmness and relief that I don’t have to feel 100% good and feed a more high-energy frantic/productive and positive state of being to feel valued, appreciated, worthy and safe. Feeling grounded and low is not a sign of illness. I am reinterpreting my life and trying to stay present when I am part of or observe conflict.”

“If I had known my body could do this, I would have started this with you a long time ago. It’s been really great. I can get through my days and get my kids to bed and still feel vibrant enough that I want to do a little bit of yoga or go for a walk or watch a show. Before, I couldn’t even make it to 3pm without being really sick.”

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