{"product_id":"regulated-robert-smith-9798185501443","title":"Regulated: A Field Guide to the Nervous System - How to Heal Anxiety, Burnout, and Chronic Stress at the Body Level","description":"You have done the inner work. The books, the therapy, the supplements, the apps. And still your body will not calm down.\u003cp\u003eYou wake at three in the morning and your chest is already braced. You sit at your desk and your jaw is clenched without your permission. You finish a meal and your stomach hurts and you do not know why. You have a good life on paper. The relationships are working. The work is fine. The bills are paid. And still, somewhere in the background of every hour, a low alarm is going off in your body, and no amount of journaling, breathwork apps, therapy, or stern self-talk has been able to turn it off. You have started to suspect that the problem is not in your thoughts. You have started to suspect that the problem is in your body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are correct.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eREGULATED\u003c\/b\u003e is the practitioner's field guide to the science the wellness industry has not yet learned how to translate. Drawing on Stephen Porges's polyvagal theory and the somatic-healing literature of the last two decades - van der Kolk, Levine, Dana, Maté, Sapolsky, Ogden, Menakem - this book is the working manual for the very large population of adults whose nervous systems have been mildly to moderately dysregulated for so long they have forgotten what regulation feels like.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat you will find inside: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA clear diagnosis of the autonomic-nervous-system problem most therapy has been working around, not on\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolyvagal theory in plain English - ventral vagal, sympathetic, dorsal vagal, and how to map your own three states\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSixteen daily protocols you can begin today: morning regulation stack, mid-day reset, evening down-regulation, sleep architecture for an activated system, and twelve more\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe four-chapter science section - vagal tone, interoception, window of tolerance, co-regulation - translated for working adults\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe long work: trauma without a trauma story, thawing the frozen state, relational repair, and what year two of a regulated life actually feels like\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA complete appendix index of every protocol, a curated reading list of the foundational literature, and a working glossary of the field\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eBottom-up, mechanism-first, lived-in. No affirmations. No optimization talk. No promises that ninety days will rewire decades. What the book offers instead is a daily, durable infrastructure of practices that, done consistently for three to twelve months, produce a body that is no longer permanently on alert - and the quiet that comes with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor the people who have done the inner work, read the books, tried the therapy, and still cannot get their body to calm down. The problem was never your mind. The book your nervous system has been waiting for.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798185501443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d","brand":"Robert Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174196584703,"sku":"9798185501443","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7d9b26f-cf33-43cb-992d-3bcd17560c4d.jpg?v=1788958295","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/regulated-robert-smith-9798185501443","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}