Newsletter archive
Notes from the Lab
Every newsletter doubles as a blog post. Evidence-based, body-first reframes for women with chronic anxiety, plus the polyvagal research behind them, plus the practice-room stories that ground them.
The 3am wake isn't insomnia
Why you wake at 3am with your heart already going, what cortisol and the nervous system are actually doing between 2 and 4am, why CBT for insomnia keeps missing it, and a quiet horizontal body move that meets the wake where it lives.
Best Books for Women Whose Anxiety Lives in the Body and Whose CBT Didn't Fully Hold
Seven books for women whose anxiety sits in the chest, gut, and jaw, who have done CBT, and need a somatic and polyvagal layer that holds.
The body before the diagnosis
What high-functioning anxiety looks like in the body before anyone names it. The jaw, the ribs, the years-before stories women never thought to track, and a small body-history exercise that names what most therapists ask too late.
Welcome to The Calm Body Lab
A first note from the new Maeve Linden newsletter. Polyvagal theory in plain language, somatic practice from a working Asheville practitioner, and the slow body-first work the breathwork apps do not teach.