About Neurosoma

Hi, I'm Lee Bladon — the one behind Neurosoma.

I’m a therapist and author, and I’ve spent more than 17 years exploring my own inner world through study, practice and deep personal work. For more than eight years, I’ve also worked directly with clients, alongside training in approaches including somatic psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Hakomi, Psychosynthesis and the Incorr Method. I’m also the author of Awakening to Wholeness, and much of what I’ve learned through my own experience, my training and my work with clients has found its way into Neurosoma.

For years, from the outside, my life looked absolutely fine. But underneath, I was dealing with chronic anxiety and an emotional flatness that never really lifted, no matter what I accomplished or how much I understood about myself. I spent years reading, studying and trying to think my way out of it.

What eventually changed things wasn’t finding a better explanation. It was learning to stop analysing everything from the outside and actually feel what was happening within me. Much of what I’ve learned has come from my own ongoing inner work. My 1 to 1 client work has added another dimension, allowing me to see how these same patterns and processes can play out across very different lives and circumstances.

Over time, I found myself bringing these different perspectives together into something that felt more coherent: an approach that recognised that we can't fully understand ourselves through the mind alone. Our bodies, nervous systems, emotions, beliefs and patterns are all part of the picture.

That's where Neurosoma came from.

Nervous system regulation is an important part of Neurosoma, but Neurosoma is about much more than just regulation.

Regulation can help you change your state. It can help you come down from activation, come out of shutdown, and create enough capacity to stay present. But the deeper questions remain. Why does this situation affect me so strongly? Why do I keep repeating this pattern? What am I feeling underneath the reaction? What did I learn to expect? And what is actually happening now?

Neurosoma brings awareness to these deeper layers. You explore how experiences from the past can continue to influence the present, how beliefs and emotional patterns develop, how relationships affect your nervous system, and how protective responses that once made sense can continue long after the circumstances that created them have changed. The aim isn't to use willpower to force those patterns away. It's to become aware enough to understand them, experience them and begin to meet them differently.

Over time, new experiences of the present can begin to sit alongside what your nervous system learned in the past. This is what Neurosoma means by recalibration: not retraining a broken system, but helping an already capable nervous system become more responsive to the life you're actually living now.

Everything in Neurosoma rests on three things working together: awareness, embodiment and presence.

• Awareness allows you to recognise what's happening within you — your thoughts, emotions, sensations, nervous-system states, impulses and patterns.
• Embodiment brings that awareness into your actual experience. You don't simply understand that you're anxious, overwhelmed or disconnected; you begin to feel and recognise how that experience lives in your body.
• Presence allows you to meet what's happening now, rather than automatically responding from what happened then.

Together, these create the foundation for a different relationship with yourself. You become less identified with your thoughts, emotions and patterns. You begin to see them as experiences happening within you rather than as definitions of who you are. And beneath all of that, you may begin to discover something that was there all along.

Your conditioning is not who you truly are.