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a 7-week live program for the adhd nervous system

I help you support your ADHD nervous system through your five senses, so you can finally focus, follow through, and feel safe in your own body.

your brain isn't broken. it's stuck on high alert, and no one ever taught you the five senses that switch it off.

in 7 weeks, you go from overwhelmed, scattered and anxious, to calm, focused and finally able to finish what you start. not from willpower. because your nervous system feels safe.

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see exactly how it works before you decide anything.
read this if any of it sounds like you

You've tried the planners, the apps,
the meds, the discipline.

and you still end most days wondering why something this simple feels this impossible.

  • you have ADHD, or a chaotic mind you never quite understood
  • you procrastinate on the exact things you care about most, and hate yourself for it
  • you've always been "too much," too sensitive, too intense
  • one piece of criticism can wreck you for three hours, or three days
  • you start everything on fire and finish almost nothing
  • your relationships, or your sex life, rarely feel safe enough to relax into

you are not lazy. you are not failing. you are dysregulated. and that is fixable.

here's the truth no one told you

They look like six different problems.
They're one problem.

the procrastination. the anxiety. the spirals. the sensitivity. the burnout. they all trace back to a single thing.

your nervous system is stuck in survival mode.

your brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second. it was built for a handful. so it never stops bracing. and a body that is bracing cannot focus, cannot rest, cannot receive. it can only react.

every tool you've tried talked to your mind. but the mind can't talk the body out of survival. so nothing held.

why "just try harder" never worked

How many times has
"calm down" ever actually worked?

never. because you can't think your way out of a body that feels unsafe. telling a dysregulated nervous system to focus is like shouting "relax" at someone mid panic attack.

there is only one way in. not through your thoughts. through your body. through your senses.

your five senses are the door to your vagus nerve, the cable that carries the signal from body to brain and flips you from stress to calm. and it works like a muscle. you can train it.

the vagus nerve, the longest cranial nerve · polyvagal theory, Stephen Porges

who is teaching this

I didn't read this in a book.
I lived every word of it.

i was always "too much." i grew up where love and safety weren't even words in the dictionary, and i spent years in a dark place. the ADHD diagnosis gave me a label, not an answer.

so i stopped searching out there. i went back to the body, back to nature, and that's where i found the five senses. i rebuilt my nervous system one sense at a time, and it changed everything: my focus, my work, my relationships, my peace.

then i wrote it down. The Five Senses Formula became the book i wish someone had handed me at twenty. now i coach this method live, and it's the program i needed before i ever had any of this language.

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ADHD coach & author · independent neuroscience researcher · author of The Five Senses Formula™

the science behind it

backed by 12+ pages of peer-reviewed research
from Harvard · NIMH · Oxford · Radboud

polyvagal theory (Porges) · C-tactile touch (McGlone) · gut-brain axis (Gershon)
olfactory pathway (Datta, Harvard) · circadian light (Chang, Harvard) · EMDR (Shapiro)
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"the book is the map. the program is the journey, with me beside you."

the method

Five senses. Five doors.
One regulated nervous system.

each sense is a direct line to your vagus nerve. this is exactly what we train, week by week.

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Touch

we map the right movement for your nervous system
what we do
  • Movement mapping: match the right movement (discharge, structure, or slow) to your exact state
  • Anchor movement to tasks and emotions, so your body has a cue for each
  • Acupressure points (PC-6, GV-20) to switch off anxiety and overwhelm on command
  • EFT tapping to discharge emotional charge in minutes
the neuroscience

Slow, intentional touch and movement signal safety to the brain through C-tactile nerve fibers and the vagus nerve, completing the stress cycle your body gets stuck in.

McGlone et al., 2014 (C-tactile afferents) · EFT lowers cortisol and anxiety, Church et al., 2012
TRY IT → Frozen before a task? Shake your body for 60 seconds, press PC-6, breathe slow. Your body unlocks before your mind does.
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Smell

the fastest reset, straight to your emotional brain
what we do
  • Breathwork: the long exhale that flips you from fight-or-flight to calm
  • Scent anchoring: tie a scent to a task so smell triggers focus on cue
  • Build your scent toolkit (one for calm, one for focus, one to start)
  • Break procrastination with a smell-based start ritual
the neuroscience

Smell is the only sense that skips the thinking brain (the thalamus) and routes straight to emotion and memory. That's why scent shifts your state faster than any thought.

Sullivan et al. · Datta, Harvard · slow breathing raises vagal tone, Laborde et al., 2022
TRY IT → Smell peppermint or rosemary every time you sit down to focus. Within days, that scent becomes your brain's "focus now" switch.
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Taste

eat for focus, not for the crash
what we do
  • Food mapping: which foods fuel focus, and which quietly spike then crash you
  • An eating lifestyle matched to your body, not what the food industry sells you
  • Mindful eating to interrupt overthinking and pull you back to now
  • Brain-fuel basics: protein, fat, and omega-3 for steady dopamine
the neuroscience

95% of your serotonin is made in your gut, and it talks to your brain through the vagus nerve. Blood-sugar spikes crash you into fog and cortisol. Sugar hits the brain like a drug.

Gershon, the gut-brain axis · sugar and dopamine, Hoebel, Princeton
TRY IT → Swap the cereal for eggs and avocado at breakfast. Watch your 10am crash quietly disappear.
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Sound

rewire the loudest voice in the room: yours
what we do
  • Choose your frequencies: which sounds to let in, and which to cut
  • A sound library for focus, calm, and sleep (brown noise, binaural, 432 Hz)
  • The narrative rewire: use your own voice to rewrite the story you carry about your ADHD
  • Humming and vocal toning to stimulate the vagus nerve directly
the neuroscience

Sound reaches your emotional brain before the thinking cortex, so your body reacts before you can choose. And your brain weighs negative words more heavily, which is why self-talk literally wires belief.

negativity bias, Baumeister et al., 2001 · 432 Hz vs 440 Hz, Calamassi & Pomponi, 2019 (early)
TRY IT → Catch the thought "I'm lazy." Say slowly, out loud: "My nervous system is dysregulated, not broken." Your tone reprograms the belief.
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Sight · Light & Vision

take back the sense that runs your clock
what we do
  • Digital sunset + detox: end the scroll that steals your sleep and your mornings
  • Green + blue light therapy: morning light to set your clock, warm light at night
  • Bilateral / EMDR eye movements to discharge emotional charge and quiet a spiral
  • Sensory stacking: combine sight with the other senses for a deeper shift
the neuroscience

Up to half your cortex processes vision. Light through your eyes sets your master clock; 2 hours of evening screens can cut melatonin by ~23%. A distant gaze breaks the rumination loop.

Felleman & Van Essen · Harvard, Chang et al., 2015 · default mode network, Raichle · EMDR, Shapiro
TRY IT → 10 minutes of morning sunlight before you touch your phone. It anchors your focus and your mood for the entire day.

five doors. one regulated nervous system. and the live coaching to make it actually land.

Show me how →
7 weeks · live · together
now imagine 30 days from now

You focus without forcing it.
You feel without spiraling.

you sit down and the work just happens. you eat slowly and actually taste your food. you say no without the guilt. criticism stings, but you don't lose the afternoon to it. a problem comes and you think, calmly, "i'll figure it out."

you start things. and you finish them. not from willpower. because your nervous system finally feels safe.

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introducing

The Five Senses Formula

Regulate & Build

7 weeks. live. together. we regulate your nervous system first, then we build the focus and follow-through on top of it. in that order. it's the only order that works.

Regulate · weeks 1-5

one sense per week. Touch, Smell, Taste, Sound, Sight. you learn exactly what trains your vagus nerve to signal safety, with done-for-you protocols and a live call every week.

Build · weeks 6-7

now we build on a calm system. coaching on procrastination and follow-through, and on rejection sensitivity and emotional regulation. you walk out with your formula for life.

here's everything you get

Let's add up what's actually inside.

not a course you forget. a live room, every protocol, and the support to make it stick.

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The Core

7 Weekly Live Coaching Callslearn the protocol, do it live, get coached on your exact situation. the heart of everything.€1,400
Core value:€1,400
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The Touch Protocol

The Movement Mapping Toolinstantly match the exact movement your nervous system is starving for€197
The Acupressure Reset Library + EFTdone-for-you points that switch off anxiety and overwhelm, on demand€197
The Somatic Release Toolkitshaking + the butterfly hug to settle panic in under 60 seconds€150
Touch Anchoring Trainingwire safe touch into a one-second off switch for stress€100
Touch Protocol value:€644
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The Olfactory Reset

Guided Breathwork Sessionsfollow-along practices that flip you from fight-or-flight to calm in three breaths€197
The Scent Anchoring Systemthe trick that turns one scent into your automatic focus trigger, so you finally start€197
Olfactory Reset value:€394
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The Brain Fuel Map

The Food Mapping Toolfinally see which foods spike your anxiety and which fuel calm and focus, mapped to your body€197
The Focus Foods Blueprintthe brain chemistry of dopamine and attention, so you eat for focus instead of the 4pm crash€250
Brain Fuel Map value:€447
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The Sound Protocol

The Inner Narrative Rewiredismantle the loudest sound of all, your own story, and rebuild the voice of someone calm and in control€250
The Brainwave Sound Librarycurated sounds and frequencies that guide your brain into focus, calm, or sleep€250
Sound Protocol value:€500
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The Light & Vision Protocol

The Digital Sunset Detoxbreak the scroll stealing your sleep and protect the 2 hours that decide your whole next day€197
Green & Blue Light Therapyuse light the way your brain evolved to, the daily routine that resets your clock and mood€175
The Bilateral Reset (EMDR-based)eye movements that discharge emotional charge and quiet a spiraling mind in minutes€150
The Sensory Stacking Methodthe compounding secret: stack 2-3 senses and regulation becomes your new baseline€150
Light & Vision value:€672
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The Build · weeks 6-7 coaching

ADHD Rewiring + Follow-Throughturn a regulated nervous system into momentum: start the thing, finish the thing, without forcing it€400
RSD & Emotional Regulationfeel criticism and rejection without the three-hour spiral, the exact protocol for when it hits€400
Build coaching value:€800
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Support + Access

The 5 Senses Check-In Toolknow exactly which sense is dysregulating you, any day€150
The ADHD Strategy Toolkitthe regulate-then-build system for focus and follow-through€300
Weekly Body-Doubling + Focus Roomsnever do the hard thing alone again€400
Accountability + Daily Check-insmomentum that doesn't fade after week two€300
Private Community, for lifeyour people, and lifetime recordings€350
Direct access to me in the groupyour questions answered in under 24 hours€200
Support value:€1,700
Total value: €7,000
today, founding price
€997
or 3 monthly payments of €367
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these bonuses disappear after the first 24 hours. they're how we make sure the people who move first feel taken care of from day one.

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A free 1:1 Clarity Call with me

we map your nervous system together before week 1 even starts. you arrive already knowing where you are.

value €200
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An extra 30-min Coaching Call

private, at the end of the 7 weeks. we lock in everything you learned and build your post-program plan.

value €150
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so your support, your protocols and your people don't disappear when the program ends.

value €99
Total bonus value: €449 → yours free if you join in 24h
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Total value: €7,000

one regulated nervous system pays you back for the rest of your life. because this is the founding cohort, you are not paying anywhere near €7,000.

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🦋 a 7-week live program

The Five Senses Formula™

Regulate & Build

The live coaching program where you learn how to support your ADHD nervous system through your five senses — so you can finally focus, follow through, and feel safe in your body.

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the guarantee

We work together
until you feel the shift.

do the work for 30 days. if you don't feel it, i keep coaching you for up to 8 weeks until you do. if the shift still hasn't landed by then, you get a full refund. no hoops.

the risk is entirely mine. all you have to decide is whether you're willing to try one more time, with the one approach you were never given.

*refund eligibility requires completed weekly check-ins and attendance at live calls during the guarantee period.

what the beta cohort said

Real ADHD brains. Real shifts.

★★★★★

"I've started and quit more programs than I can count. This is the first one I actually finished. By week three I sat down and worked for two hours without forcing it. I cried."

Lina, 29 · graphic designer

★★★★★

"I'd done the therapy and the apps, but I never had anything to actually DO when a spiral hit. The sound and touch protocols gave me that. I settle in minutes now, not hours."

Marco, 41 · software engineer

★★★★★

"Scent anchoring sounded way too simple to work. Now it runs my whole focus. I smell rosemary and my brain just... starts. I don't fight the blank page anymore."

Sofia, 34 · copywriter

★★★★★

"My whole life I thought I was lazy. Turns out I was dysregulated. That one sentence cracked me open, and then Nadia actually handed me tools to work with my brain instead of against it."

Daniel, 38 · teacher

★★★★★

"Rejection used to wreck me for days. Now criticism stings and then it passes. My partner noticed the change before I even did."

Amira, 31 · marketing manager

★★★★★

"The body-doubling rooms got me through my thesis. For the first time, I wasn't doing the hard thing completely alone. That changed everything."

Tom, 26 · PhD student

how it stacks up

You've tried all of these.
Here's why this is different.

Five Senses
Formula
Therapy ADHD
meds
Planners
& apps
Generic
coaching
Speaks to your body, not just your mind
Built specifically for ADHD brains
Grounded in peer-reviewed neuroscience
Live coaching + community 1:1 only
Tools you can use in the actual moment
Works in 15 min/day · ADHD-friendly
One-time cost · no subscription
"Until you feel the shift" guarantee
🦋 the five senses formula
8 reasons it's different.
what therapy, meds, planners and generic coaching couldn't deliver.
Speaks to your body, not just your mind
Built specifically for ADHD brains
Grounded in peer-reviewed neuroscience
Live coaching + community (not just videos)
Tools you can use in the actual moment
Works in 15 min/day · ADHD-friendly format
One-time cost · no monthly subscription
"Until you feel the shift" guarantee

none of those tools were wrong. they just couldn't reach the part of your brain that needed reaching.

Try the one that does
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honest moment

Who this is NOT for.

i'd rather you save your money than buy something that isn't built for you. this program is not the right fit if:

  • you're looking for a weekend hack or a quick fix. this rebuilds your nervous system over weeks, not hours.
  • you want someone else to do it for you. the protocols are short, but you have to do them.
  • you can't carve out 15-20 minutes a day to practice.
  • you're hoping this replaces therapy or psychiatric care. it's a complement, not a substitute.
  • you don't have a chaotic, ADHD, anxious or sensitive nervous system. this is built specifically for that.
  • you're not ready to feel your body again. no judgment, that's a real journey.

if you read that and thought "ok, none of those are me" — keep going.

so, to recap

Here is everything you walk away with.

a live cohort. every protocol. the people. the guarantee.

your enrollment founding cohort
🎥7 weekly live coaching calls — the core €1,400
🤲The Touch Protocol €644
👃The Olfactory Reset €394
👅The Brain Fuel Map €447
👂The Sound Protocol €500
👁️The Light & Vision Protocol €672
🛠The Build coaching — weeks 6-7 €800
🫶Support + access — community, body-doubling, tools €1,700
🎁Fast-action bonuses — within 24h €449
Total value €7,000
🦋 you save €6,003
today · founding price
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Join the founding cohort, €997
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before you decide

The honest answers.

I've genuinely tried everything. Why would this be different?

because everything you tried spoke to your mind. willpower, planners, mindset, meds. this is the first thing that speaks to your body, where the dysregulation actually lives. you can't think your way calm. you regulate your way there, through your senses. that's the piece you were never handed.

I have ADHD. I will not keep up with a complicated program.

it's built for an ADHD brain, by one. the protocols are short, sensory and done for you, not another 5am routine to fail at. you follow them. the live calls, body-doubling rooms and daily check-ins exist precisely so you don't fall off in week two. falling behind is planned for, not punished.

How much time does this actually take each week?

one live call a week, plus a few minutes a day of protocols you weave into things you already do (eating, walking, winding down). this adds calm to your day, it doesn't add a second job.

What if I fall behind or miss a whole week?

nothing breaks. every call and protocol is recorded and yours for life, and the community is always there. you pick up where you left off, no guilt, no catching-up spiral. this is built for brains that have bad weeks.

Is this therapy? Do I need an official diagnosis?

it's not therapy, and you don't need a diagnosis. self-identified, waiting for an assessment, or formally diagnosed, you're welcome. it's nervous-system coaching grounded in neuroscience, and it sits alongside any therapy or medication you're already doing.

I'm medicated. Does this still work? Do I have to stop?

it works with or without medication, and you never change your meds because of anything i say, that's between you and your doctor. medication can quiet the noise; this teaches your nervous system to regulate underneath it. they're not rivals.

Does it work for inattentive type, women, or AuDHD?

yes. the method works at the nervous-system level, which is underneath the subtype. it's been especially powerful for the quiet, internal, "i look fine but i'm drowning" presentation that so often gets missed, particularly in women.

Is the science real, or is this woo?

real, and cited. polyvagal theory, the gut-brain axis, EMDR, circadian light, C-tactile touch, every claim traces to named, peer-reviewed research, and to my published book. where something is early-stage (like specific sound frequencies), i tell you that plainly. no mysticism, no overpromising.

Will this actually help my procrastination specifically?

procrastination is a regulation problem wearing a productivity costume. you avoid the task because your body reads it as threat. once we regulate the system (weeks 1-5) and then coach follow-through directly (weeks 6-7), starting stops feeling like dragging yourself uphill. that's the whole design.

What if I can't make a call live? What about time zones?

every call is recorded and yours for life, and you can drop your question in ahead of time to get coached even if you can't attend. live is where the shift lands fastest, so come when you can, but missing one costs you nothing.

What exactly happens the moment I join?

you get instant access to the private community and your fast-action bonuses, including the 1:1 clarity call where we map your nervous system before week 1. we begin live on June 28, one sense per week, then build. you're never doing it alone.

I've been burned by online programs before. Why trust this?

fair, and you shouldn't trust it on faith. that's exactly why the guarantee exists: do the work for 30 days, and if you don't feel the shift, i keep working with you until you do, or you get a full refund. the risk sits with me, not you. you only have to be willing to try.

How is this different from your book?

the book gives you the map. this gives you the guided journey: live coaching on your exact brain, the done-for-you protocols, the community, the accountability, and the build phase the book can't deliver on a page. most people here have read the book and came because they wanted it done with them, not just explained to them.

Is my information and the community private?

yes. it's a private group, not public social media. what's shared in the room stays in the room. you choose how much you share, and you're never put on the spot.

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You were never broken.
You were handed one door.
Let me give you five more.

perception controls identity. identity controls behavior. behavior controls results. and your perception is set by your nervous system. change the system, and everything downstream changes with it.

More body. Less mind.

Claim your founding spot, €997
only 30 spots · doors close June 21 · we start June 28

This is an educational coaching program, not medical advice or a substitute for professional care. It does not diagnose, treat or cure any condition. Always consult your doctor before changing any treatment. Testimonials reflect individual experiences and results vary.

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