Andrea Lakeman-Ford

If you’ve been looking at my programmes and wondering, ‘Is it worth the investment?’— listen to Candace. 👆

This wasn’t her first nervous system regulation course but one of the things she commented on about The Release Method™ was just how much support and personalisation and value is actually packed into it.

I don’t believe nervous system work should be one-size-fits-all.

Your body is different.
Your stress patterns are different.
Your history is different.
The way your nervous system responds is different.

That’s why I work 1:1 with every client who joins my programmes.

You have access to me for support throughout, I review your progress and check-ins, and the practices you use are chosen and adapted based on what **your** body is actually showing us.

I’ve found that generic courses can give you lots of information and lots of techniques but information alone isn’t what creates transformation.

Knowing **what your body needs, when it needs it, and when it’s time to change the approach** is where the magic happens.

This is Candace sharing her experience inside my 12-week **Release Method™** programme. 🤍

If you’d like to know more about the programme, comment **METHOD** and I’ll send you the details.

Life is going to chuck tennis balls into your bowl. 🎾💦

Stress happens.
People annoy you.
Plans change.
You get bad news.
You get excited.
You feel angry, anxious, overwhelmed, sad.

A regulated nervous system **still reacts** to all of that. The difference is that it can respond and then find its way back. That’s what we’re actually building. Not a nervous system that never gets activated. But one that can **move through activation without getting stuck there**.

You get stressed → and come back.
You feel overwhelmed → and come back.
You get angry → and come back.
Life throws something unexpected at you → and you come back.

Feeling the full range of being human, while giving your body the tools to recognise when the danger has passed and return to safety.

Want to start teaching your body how to do that?

Comment **CALM** and I’ll send you my free Calm Reset video with 4 simple techniques to help your nervous system find its way back.

Reset your nervous system in under 5 minutes

If your body feels constantly on edge tight, wired, exhausted, or stuck in overdrive this is for you.

In this short guided session, I’ll walk you through a gentle humming breath (bee breath) combined with a body scan to help your system shift out of fight-or-flight and into a parasympathetic (rest and repair) state.

Here’s the part most people miss:
You can understand your stress.
You can talk about it.
You can even try to “relax”…

But if your nervous system doesn’t feel safe, your body won’t switch off the stress response.

What this practice helps you do:

✔ Calm your nervous system quickly
✔ Reduce the intensity of stress or anxiety in the body
✔ Come out of fight-or-flight mode
✔ Gently reconnect with your body
✔ Support symptoms linked to chronic stress (like pain, fatigue, flare-ups)

Why humming breath works

Humming (bee breath) naturally stimulates the vagus nerve, which helps signal safety to the body and encourages a shift into parasympathetic mode.

When you combine that with a slow body scan, you’re giving your system the exact signals it needs to begin letting go of tension and bracing.

A quick note on the “window of tolerance”

In the video, I briefly explain the Window of Tolerance — the range where your body feels safe, steady, and able to cope.

When you’re outside of that window (in fight, flight, or shutdown), your symptoms often increase.

This practice helps gently guide you back into that window.

This is a simple but powerful first step in retraining your body out of survival mode.

If you want to go deeper into this work — where we look at your specific patterns and how to switch them off — I teach this inside my Release Method™. More details here: https://www.andrealakemanford.co.uk/the-release-method

💬 Let me know in the comments: how did your body feel after this?

Does that surprise you?

When I say I don’t have a regular practice, what I mean is I don’t go and sit every day with the intention of ‘doing breathwork’ Sometimes, I do, but it’s less often than you might think.

Over many years of healing my own chronic conditions and working with hundreds of clients to do the same, I’ve realised that bodies and nervous systems respond best to small signs of safety. A quick couple of breaths whilst washing up, some coherence breathing while stroking your dog, or a shoulder roll and deep breath whilst waiting for the traffic lights to change.

You don’t need hundreds of techniques, just the right techniques for your body and nervous system at the right time for you.

Comment ‘BODY’ to join me in my Body Release Workshop where I’ll show you steps like this that I use with all my clients in my programmes

Your chronic tension and pain shows up because your body doesn’t feel safe yet, so it holds onto tension, to protection and to pain.

This is one of the simplest ways to start changing that 👇

Hand on your heart.
Slow your breath.
Lengthen your exhale.

You’re not forcing your body to relax… you’re showing it there’s nothing to fight right now.

When your body feels safe, it starts to let go.

If your body’s been stuck in pain cycles for years, it’s not because you’ve failed. It’s because no one showed your nervous system how to feel safe.

Comment CALM and I’ll send you my free video with 4 ways to help your body come out of protection mode.

You have done the diets. The supplements, the therapy. You have read the books and followed the plans and still woken up exhausted, bloated, in pain. Somewhere along the way you started believing healing just doesn’t work for you

That belief is costing you more than the symptoms are. Every time you try something new from that place, your nervous system reads it as another threat, another thing to survive. Nothing settles because nothing feels safe.

The missing piece was never willpower or the right supplement. Your body learned that danger was everywhere. It is still running that programme. That is a stuck nervous system.

Clients come in convinced healing works for everyone except them. Within weeks they are sleeping through the night and their gut has stopped reacting to everything. Not because they found the perfect protocol, because their body finally felt safe enough to let go.

The window to join is open now and spaces are limited because I work one to one with every client. Comment METHOD below to get started with The Release Method one to one 12 week programme.