Aimee Buchler

21/10/2026

Your nervous system doesn’t just learn regulation when you’re meditating, doing breathwork or lying on a yoga mat.

It learns in the messy, uncomfortable, unpredictable moments of everyday life!

When someone cuts you off in traffic. When your partner pushes your buttons. When things don’t go to plan. When you feel misunderstood, overwhelmed or out of control.

These are the moments that matter.

Because it’s easy to feel regulated when everything around you is calm.

The real practice begins when life challenges that calm.

And no, regulation doesn’t mean “calm”. It doesn’t mean suppressing your anger, pretending you’re fine or forcing yourself to stay positive.

It means learning to recognise what’s happening in your body, allowing yourself to feel it fully, and returning to a baseline state of peace.

The faster you’re able to return to that state, the more regulated you are.

Some days you’ll manage it beautifully. Other days you’ll react before you even realise you’ve been triggered.

Both are part of the practice.

The goal isn’t perfection. It’s awareness, capacity and choice.

So next time life tests your patience, instead of seeing it as another stressful moment, see it as an opportunity!

Your everyday life is your nervous system training ground.

Save this for the next time life pushes your buttons. 🤍

19/10/2026

16/10/2026

Part 1…

This is what works so well for me! And there’s more…

Save this and share it with a pregnant friend! ❤️

12/10/2026

Baby bump growth over the past few months!!

Wild. Magical. Sensational. ❤️

Thank you Great Spirit for this incredible gift 🙏🏽🥹😍 João Paulo

06/10/2026

If you are pregnant, you are an athlete!

Did you know that:

• Growing a baby uses almost the exact same daily energy as running a continuous, 270-day ultra-marathon (without running).

• Scientists found humans have a hard limit on how much energy they can burn long-term; pregnancy pushes women right to that absolute maximum human limit, just a fraction behind Tour de France cyclists.

• A pregnant person grows a completely new, temporary organ from scratch - the placenta - which acts as an external life-support system.

• The body creates 50% more blood during pregnancy to support the baby, making the heart pump much harder even while resting..

• To make room, the uterus expands to the size of a watermelon, forcing the stomach, liver, and intestines to completely squish and displace upwards.

• Only 4% of the extra calories eaten actually go into building the baby; the other 96% is used just to keep the mother’s overworked heart, lungs, and kidneys running.

• The body releases a hormone called relaxin that literally softens ligaments and widens the pelvis so the baby can fit through.

The body is just incredible!!!

05/10/2026

A slice of life recently ❤️

25/09/2026

Pregnancy is not the time to start learning the basics ❤️

Most women don’t think seriously about their nutrition, hydration or sleep until they see two lines on a test…

By then, they’re learning on the fly, while exhausted, possibly nauseous and overwhelmed with information.

Your body builds a whole human from the reserves you already have.

If those reserves are low, pregnancy feels harder: more fatigue, more crashes, more depletion.

When the foundations are already second nature, your body is prepared, and you feel more at ease mentally.

The best time to build these habits is now!

So…

1. Nutrition 🥚

Protein is the raw material your body uses to build and repair everything, and most women don’t eat enough.

Steady blood sugar means steadier energy, moods and hormones.

→ Aim for 1 to 1.5g of protein per kg of bodyweight daily (a 65kg woman needs roughly 65 to 100g)

→ Build every meal around protein first, especially breakfast (meat, fish, eggs, legumes, greek yoghurt)

2. Hydration 💧

Even mild dehydration shows up as headaches, fatigue, brain fog and poor digestion.

Most of us are walking around under-hydrated without realising it.

→ Drink 3+ litres of filtered, mineralised water per day

→ Front-load it by having 500ml when you wake up, before coffee or tea

→ Filtering strips out minerals, so add a trace mineral drop or quality electrolytes

3. Sleep 🌙

Sleep is when your body repairs, balances blood sugar and regulates stress hormones.

Poor sleep drives cravings, anxiety and hormonal imbalance.

→ Aim for 7 to 9 hours, with consistent sleep and wake times

→ Get 10-20 min of morning sunlight within an hour of waking to anchor your body clock

→ Dim the lights and put screens away an hour before bed

Save this, share it with a friend who’s thinking about starting a family 🥰

24/09/2026

Your stress resilience at 4pm is partly decided at 7am☀️

Before your phone, before your coffee, your nervous system is waiting for one signal: light.

Inside your eyes are specialised cells called melanopsin cells.

They don’t help you see; their job is to tell your brain what time it is.

When bright morning light hits them, they signal your master clock (the suprachiasmatic nucleus), and a chain reaction begins.

First, you get a healthy cortisol spike. Cortisol has a bad reputation, but a strong morning peak is exactly what we want.

It wakes you up, sharpens focus and gives your body energy for the day.

The trouble starts when that curve goes flat, with too little in the morning and too much at night.

A flat curve is strongly linked to chronic stress, anxiety and burnout.

Second, a timer starts. That morning light tells your body when to release melatonin roughly 14 to 16 hours later, so you sleep more deeply.

Deep sleep is when your brain recalibrates its threat response, meaning less reactivity and more calm the next day.

So a regulated rhythm gives you a regulated nervous system. You aren’t forcing calm. You’re giving your biology the cue it’s been waiting for.

Here’s the key part: indoor light is typically 100 to 500 lux, while even an overcast morning outdoors can reach 10,000 lux or more.

Your kitchen light and the view through the window don’t come close.

Your daily ritual:

☀️ Get outside within an hour of waking
☀️ Spend 5 to 10 minutes on a bright day, or 15 to 20 when it’s cloudy
☀️ Skip the sunglasses
☀️ Bonus: pair it with 5 slow breaths, inhaling through the nose and exhaling longer than you inhale

The most powerful tools are often free. 🌅

Save this for tomorrow morning!

17/09/2026

Training has always been a huuuuge part of my life.

I want to share with you my pregnancy workout routine and some important tips to know about when training pregnant…

I am SO grateful for the knowledge I have as this helps me navigate one of the most important pillars of health.

I know how to strengthen my body.

I know how to rehab my body.

I know how to train pregnant.

And most importantly I know how to listen to my body’s signals.

INVALUABLE!

So here it is:

1. Routine

Monday: legs and glutes + walk
Tuesday: callisthenics + walk
Wednesday rest + walk
Thursday: legs and glutes + walk
Friday: rest or yoga + walk
Saturday: rest or yoga + walk
Sunday: rest + walk

2. Tips:

- Pregnancy is not the time to start anything extreme that you weren’t doing before. Ie. If you weren’t running or doing handstands before, don’t start when pregnant. Focus on strengthening the muscles that will support the movements for after pregnancy.

- Keep your body strong by doing bodyweight or weighted workouts. The key is to train against some resistance to build strength. This will make pregnancy and postpartum healing a lot easier and faster.

- Do not overdo it and listen to your body! This is my routine because I’ve always trained like this. But if my body says not today then not today. I am flexible with my routine. I have also reduced weight, intensity and range of motion to adapt to my changing body.

Any questions feel free to drop me a DM! ❤️

03/09/2026

How wild is this??

Here’s the process:

Newborns are born coated in a mix of amniotic fluid, vernix caseosa, and active sweat glands, creating a highly specific, unique chemical signature on their heads.

When a mum pulls her baby close and takes a deep sniff, those scent molecules hit her olfactory system and travel straight to her limbic system (the emotional center of the brain).

This instantly cues the posterior pituitary gland to flood her body with oxytocin - the “love hormone.”

That massive hormonal surge then tells the uterus to contract hard. These contractions are what shear the placenta away from the uterine wall and safely compress open blood vessels to prevent postpartum hemorrhage.

At the same time, the scent activates the dopamine reward pathway (the same area that lights up with delicious food), delivering a rush of natural euphoria and pain relief exactly when a new mother needs it most.

Nature really thought of everything. 🤍