A home for somatic healing, learning and growth for women with highly sensitized nervous systems.
It is depth, responsiveness, awareness, and intelligence.
Women with highly sensitized nervous systems often carry profound capacities for connection, healing, intuition, creativity, and care— while also carrying the weight of overwhelm, survival patterns, and nervous system exhaustion.
It is possible to be deeply sensitive and deeply well.
To feel fully without constantly feeling overwhelmed.
To live with greater connection, purpose, fulfillment, and peace.
Sensitive & Regulated™exists to support women in moving beyond survival patterns — into reconnecting with themselves, their bodies, and a more fulfilling way of living.
Sensitivity is not weakness.
You are in the right place if…
You identify as a highly sensitive person, seeking peace, freedom and a way of living that is aligned with how you are wired as a human being.
You feel chronically overwhelmed, emotionally flooded, anxious, over-functioning, or exhausted.
You are struggling with physical symptoms such as pain, digestive issues, sleep disruption, TMJ, autoimmune disease, chronic illness, or symptoms that do not seem to improve with traditional approaches.
You want help getting out of your head and reconnecting with your body, intuition, self-trust, and inner guidance.
You recognize that trauma, chronic stress, attachment wounds, or nervous system survival patterns may be affecting your health, relationships, emotions, and overall wellbeing.
You recognize that your nervous system has adapted around Fawn response patterns such as people-pleasing, over-functioning, hypervigilance, perfectionism, or losing yourself in relationships.
You are new to somatic work or are ready to deepen your healing, regulation, and connection with yourself.
Much of what we call anxiety, chronic illness, emotional overwhelm, burnout, or relational struggle can be understood through the lens of nervous system survival and adaptation.
Healing becomes possible when the nervous system is met with safety, attunement, regulation, and relational care.
Welcome
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I’m Lua Zawacki, Somatic Practitioner and founder of Sensitive & Regulated™.
If you resonated with anything on the list above, please know you are not alone. Over the past 12 years, I have helped hundreds of women heal from trauma, resolve chronic symptoms, and reconnect with greater peace, regulation, and self-trust — without needing to revisit or relive their past.
My work is grounded in the neuroscience of the autonomic nervous system and in the understanding that highly sensitive women are often conditioned to override themselves— disconnecting from their bodies, needs, intuition, boundaries, and sense of self in the process.
This is not personal failure.
This occurs beneath our conscious awareness. It is historical, cultural, relational, and woven into the fabric of our social reality — in service to survival and belonging.
Somatic healing for us is about cultivating the safety needed to reconnect with ourselves— in service to peace, regulation, freedom, and aliveness.
My hope is that you find a home for healing, understanding, connection, expression, and growth here, whether you are new to somatic healing or have been walking this path for awhile.
“Experiencing safety is the treatment, cultivating safety is the work.”
Stephen Porges
I help you resource the
intelligence of your body
for healing and transformation.
As a Somatic Practitioner,
I support you to:
regulate your autonomic nervous system so you can move through life with more ease, connection, and capacity
heal from trauma and survival patterns that may be getting in the way of the life you long to live
shift out of patterns of over-functioning, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, and self-abandonment
reconnect with your body, intuition, self-trust, and inner guidance system
understand and work with your body’s unique cues, patterns, and nervous system responses
process difficult emotions in ways that do not overwhelm your system
experience healing from a place of wholeness rather than self-fixing
reconnect with greater aliveness, freedom, regulation, and wellbeing
I do not need to know the details of your past in order to help you shift into new ways of being and living that feel more life-enhancing for you today.
Healing happens in
relationship,
and support over time.
practice,
Ways to work together:
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Private somatic healing support for women seeking relief from chronic symptoms and survival-based patterns — ready to reconnect with themselves and experience greater peace, freedom, regulation, and aliveness.
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A practitioner certification and mentorship pathway focused on somatic healing, nervous system regulation, relational safety, and embodied practice for sensitive nervous systems.
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An ongoing community for somatic practice, nervous system support, integration, and relational healing for women already engaged in this work.
To preserve the depth, safety, and integrity of the community, The Practice Garden™ is currently reserved for existing and past clients.
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Coming Soon: A self-paced, foundational nervous system healing program for women ready to move beyond Fawn-based survival patterns and reconnect with greater regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and connection with self.
Client Testimonials
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What becomes possible through somatic healing.
Gianna
“It is crazy to reflect on where my nervous system and overall mental, emotional, and spiritual health was a year ago. Before seeing Lua my nervous system was in constant fight or flight / freeze mode and I was experiencing extreme mental breakdowns, confusion, and thought that I had BPD. After working with Lua and understanding the nervous system, I was able to rewire myself and approach life with a completely new lens. I now feel so much more in control of my emotions, thoughts, and life. I feel a sense of safety and understanding of my body that I never felt before.”
Jade
“If you feel burned out of traditional therapy and are desperate for a new approach, you need to work with her! In the few months I've spent with her, I've learned more about myself than years with other counselors/therapists.”
Selah
“I began to research “what is wrong with me” and discovered somatic therapy. I determined I was in a chronic freeze response, and after a few months of trying to heal myself, I chose to seek help. Six months after starting somatic work, I am no longer burnt out and exhausted. I’m no longer in pain 24/7 because my nervous system isn’t at war with me. I can communicate through difficult situations without my body burning up and continuing to burn for the next week until I’m numb. I’m happy. I’m content. I’m confident in who I am and what I’ve chosen, and I no longer feel pressured to succumb to the expectations of everyone around me. I’ve become more gracious, my empathy has grown, and my relationship with my family has improved immeasurably.”
Marci
“I have found Somatic Therapy, specifically with Lua, an answer in my quest for healing. It is propelling me forward to my goals of health more deeply and more quickly than three years of talk therapy. I have such high respect and admiration for Lua. I have never experienced inner work that has been so helpful.”
Tess
“I had many years of such intense bodily sensations that I was in and out of the ER and going to a different specialist seemingly every couple of months. I was sure that I had an autoimmune condition or issues with my heart. And every time a doctor told me that I was ‘fine,’ I remember feeling such intense frustration. There was no way I was ‘fine,’ when I couldn’t engage with anything in life and was experiencing intense pain or spasticity in my body nearly every day. Lua’s given my mind and body the ability to come to terms with so much stored trauma and tension, and, ultimately, let go of it.”
