Cultivating understanding, safety and agency for those who feel in conflict with their bodies
Your body isn't broken, it's stuck
Living in a body trapped in survival mode and riddled with symptoms touches everything: your energy, your relationships, your ability to dream and move forward.
When stress goes unchecked and trauma goes unresolved, the nervous system becomes chronically dysregulated. Over time, this doesn't just feel like simple stress, it shows up as real physical symptoms, chronic conditions, and a body that conventional medicine can't make sense of, or have the tools to support.
In fact, without proper framing and support, the cycle of diagnosis, testing, and treatment can unintentionally make things worse, deepening the belief that something is fundamentally broken, reinforcing the very state of unsafety that is keeping you stuck.
The missing piece is often the mind-body connection. When we work with the body as the interconnected system it actually is, addressing the nervous system, the brain, and the whole person together, real, sustainable healing becomes possible.
Rewire out of the effects of chronic stress and trauma, into regulation, connection and vibrant health.
Is Mind-Body work right for you?
Do you struggle with chronic symptoms that don't seem to relent even though you have addressed them through medications, lifestyle changes, diet or supplements?
Would you love to be more free in your body and experience life without so much restriction and the accompanying shame and despair?
Do your symptoms seem to have a strong connection to stress and stressors?
Do you feel frustration, shame, fear or hopelessness surrounding your persistent and/or shifting merry-go-round of symptoms?
What types of conditions are considered
Mind-Body:
Conditions/symptoms that research has shown to often develop or be made worse by chronic stress and trauma:
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Chronic pain conditions: Back and neck pain, tension headaches, TMJ, migraines, vaginismus, vulvodynia, abdominal pain, chronic tendonitis, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), interstitial cystitis, repetitive strain injury, complex regional pain syndrome
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Immune System Dysregulation: Chronic infections like Lyme disease, Long-Covid, EBV, gut dysbiosis, yeast overgrowth, autoimmune conditions, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS)
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Hypersensitivity Syndromes: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), food allergies, food intolerances, reactivity to medication/supplements, chronic hives and/or itchiness, Electric Hypersensitivity Syndrome (EHS)
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Systemic Conditions: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), dysautonomia
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Other symptoms: Dizziness, nausea, burning, tingling, GI symptoms, shocking sensations, low/high blood pressure, appetite abnormalities, insomnia, anxiety, chest tightness, rashes,
Many of these conditions also have a biological framework, and respond well to functional nutrition when done through a mind-body lens. If you're unsure if Flourish's Mind-Body package or Functional Nutrition package is right for you, let's chat!
Lauren Smallcomb
Mind-Body Practitioner
I spent 15 years and thousands of dollars chasing symptoms, all the while skating right over the missing piece contributing to so much of my suffering- a chronically dysregulated nervous system.
My first autoimmune diagnosis came at age 5. By my 20s I was deep in chronic illness, cycling through diets, protocols, and fading hope. Nothing shifted until I understood what was actually driving my symptoms, and started working with my brain and nervous system instead of against them.
That shift changed everything. 70+ symptoms reduced or resolved. I went from tolerating 10 foods to eating a diverse diet again, and no longer having chronic fatigue syndrome and chronic gut symptoms. What I believed was impossible became my reality through brain retraining and mind-body work. Now the functional nutrition principles I had worked so hard to apply actually worked because my body was in a state of receptivity, healing and repair.
I'm a Certified Mind-Body Practitioner, RN, and Nutritional Therapist. My partner and I co-own Flourish Integrative Wellness, an in-person and virtual practice in Chiang Mai, Thailand, helping people rewire out of chronic symptoms and back into the fullness of their lives.
"in a way I never could..."
"I felt like my healing had plateaued after a year. I had eliminated symptoms only to have new scary sensations arise to fill their place. I knew I was entering a new season where I needed to work through the loneliness of this experience. This work found me at the right time when I was ready to fully embrace it. Though I still experience sensations, which is very normal, I have renewed my belief that I am on the right path. I am leaning into the “gray” and no longer holding onto the idea of black or white beliefs. I can feel old identities that held me back loosening their grip. The sensations don’t last as long as they used to because I approach them with curiosity. And most importantly, I realized how much of my life was ruled by fear of the uncertain. I am working every day to gently embrace that fear and sit with it in a way I never could before doing this work."
Mind-Body Work Process:
Bi-weekly sessions for 3 months (total of 6 sessions)
Two threads run through all of our work together: rewiring the nervous system from the outside in, and healing the story driving it from the inside out.
THREAD I
Brain Retraining
Guided 1-on-1 sessions using neuroscience-based brain retraining principles to interrupt chronic stress and survival cycles, shifting your nervous system out of protection mode and back toward its heal and repair mode. Includes 3 video modules to lay the foundation.
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Rewiring the stress response
Using brain retraining principles, we work to interrupt the chronic stress and threat cycles that are keeping your nervous system chronically dysregulated, gradually shifting your brain out of protection mode and into a state where healing is actually possible.
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Rebuilding the felt sense of safety
Safety isn't just a thought, it's something your body has to learn to feel. Through guided practice, we begin rebuilding your nervous system's capacity to register safety, rest, and ease as real and available to you.
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Redirecting the mind-body loop
Chronic illness and dysregulation are often maintained by unconscious patterns of thought, attention, and physical response. Together we identify and gently redirect these loops, interrupting the cycle rather than reinforcing it. This is how neuroplasticity is leveraged.
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Cultivating new neural pathways
What you practice grows. In each session and through daily home practice, we actively strengthen new pathways associated with regulation, curiosity, and connection, the neurological foundation of lasting recovery.
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Reconnecting with joy, wonder, and beauty
One of the most powerful signals you can send your nervous system is genuine positive emotion. We work intentionally with joy, gratitude, and wonder, not as bypassing, but as real neurotransmitter medicine.
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Building your personalized daily practice
Healing happens between sessions. I work with you to build sustainable, personalized daily nervous system regulation and brain retraining practices tailored to your life, your capacity, and where you are in your healing journey.
THREAD II
Emotional Integration
Guided 1-on-1 sessions where we take a deeper dive into the stories, patterns, and unmet needs behind your dysregulation, exploring the emotional and relational roots of your stress response so that your healing goes deep and is sustained.
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Going deeper into your story
Through supported exploration of childhood experiences, relationships, and formative events, we work together to understand the origins of your stress response, and begin building a more expansive, compassionate narrative of who you are and how you got here.
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Uncovering hidden patterns
We gently surface the unconscious adaptations, avoidances, and relational patterns that developed to keep you safe, that are now keeping you stuck. Seeing these patterns clearly is such a helpful first step to no longer being run by them.
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Emotional awareness and expression
Using principles of Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), we work directly with the emotions at the root of your symptoms, helping you experience, express, and release what has been stored in the body, often for years.
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Meeting your unmet needs
Many of our stress and survival patterns formed around needs that were never met, for safety, connection, worth, or belonging. In this phase, we identify those needs honestly and begin the work of meeting them in new ways.
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Stepping into a more whole version of yourself
This phase is ultimately about integration, moving out of the unwanted roles, self-limiting beliefs, and protective identities that developed out of necessity, and into a fuller, more authentic experience of who you actually are.
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Growing new neural pathways of healing and integration
Using applied neuroscience and principles of mind-body healing, we actively reinforce new pathways of safety, connection, and recovery, turning the insights from this deeper work into lasting change.
Emotions that are suppressed do not disappear, they manifest in the body as illness. Gabor Mate
"an empowering experience"
"I've always known that my physical symptoms were emotional in nature, so it was great to have that solid, scientific validation, AND a road map to systematically addressing what's hidden in the depths. Many exercises were priceless, especially the exercises that brought me out of 'the books', like physically expressing anger. Many, many concepts are also amazing, acting as a torchlight upon neglected issues - one such example is paying attention to my avoidance level on a daily basis. Lauren held space for me beautifully, and I really feel privileged to have been part of such an empowering human experience! Thank you!"
Struggling with lots of symptoms, but would prefer to address it from a functional medicine framework?
Looking to do Mind-Body work, but also have unresolved trauma that needs addressing as well?