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You don’t need more discipline. You need a nervous system plan that actually fits your life. This is a practical menu of tools to help you choose the right regulation practice at the right time, and stack it into your daily routines with ease using the Habit Stacking Guide, to help you move from survival mode to calm, grounded living, without adding more to your to-do list.

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You already know what to do. The problem is making it stick.

This free habit stacking guide shows you how to build a nervous system regulation routine that fits into your real life — not the version of your life where you have two hours of free time every morning.

Habit stacking is one of the most well-researched techniques in behavioural neuroscience. Rather than building new habits from scratch (which requires willpower your stressed nervous system simply does not have), you anchor small regulation practices onto habits you already do every day.

The result is a daily routine that requires almost no motivation to maintain — because it's built into the structure of your existing life.

This guide includes:

— The neuroscience behind habit stacking and why it works for chronically busy women

— A full menu of nervous system regulation tools rated by time, effort, and effect

— A step-by-step system for designing your personal morning and evening regulation routine

— Example stacking sequences for different lifestyle types

— Guidance on what to do when routines break down (because they will)

If you've tried to build a wellness routine before and it fell apart within two weeks, this is why — and this is the fix.

Created by Lovisa Engstrand, Nervous System Specialist and founder of The Exhale Collective.