The Nervous System Knows: Pleasure, Safety & Parasympathetic Power - Dr. Tina Koopersmith

What if pleasure wasn’t indulgent—but essential?


In this episode of Your Healing Playground, Dr. Tina explores the deep and often misunderstood relationship between pleasure and safety, and why both are required to shift the body and mind into true healing mode.


Most of us are living with nervous systems shaped in early childhood—primed for survival, hyper-vigilance, and constant “ON” mode. Even when danger is no longer real, our bodies respond as if it is. Over time, this chronic stress drains our internal battery, leading to burnout, anxiety, depression, inflammation, and dis-ease.


Here’s the truth:
Healing doesn’t happen through force or thinking harder. It happens when the body feels safe.


Pleasure and play are powerful biological signals that tell the nervous system, “You’re okay. You can rest now.” When safety is felt in the body—not argued in the mind—the parasympathetic system activates, allowing us to rest, digest, repair, reproduce, and renew our joy for life.


In this episode, you’ll learn:


Why safety is a felt sense, not a thought
How early childhood wiring keeps us stuck in survival mode
Why pleasure is a gateway to healing, not a reward
How embodiment rewires the brain and restores vitality
Why your stories are editable—and meant to serve your joy


This is an invitation to turn off the engine, recharge your system, and remember what it feels like to truly enjoy being alive.


What Am I – Children’s Book


Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith


https://tinakoopersmith.com/what-am-i-childrens-book/


~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~ 


Dr. Tina Koopersmith has practiced Western medicine for over 30 years. But she is so much more than a physician. An integrative medicine and fertility specialist, she is a transformational healer and coach who not only brings life to her patients but reminds them that it is their responsibility and, in their power, to bring themselves back to vibrancy and vitality.


Root cause healing starts with energy, emotions, communication—between your cells and your soul.


As a speaker-coach-author as well as mother, nonconformist, and recovering perfectionist, she is dedicated to modifying our health care system from one focused on illness and sickness to one devoted to prevention and wellness.


She reminds us all that love, play, pleasure and purpose are the secret ingredients to wellness. She starts with the premise we all have the same parts and very similar DNA, and yet we all have different experiences and imprinting. Our unique signature means we are all wired to access safety and pleasure in a slightly different fashion; this diversity is to be praised and celebrated.


When our body feels safe, we can move from our “childhood” survival stress mode to our “Wise Sage Self”. Healing, recovery and regeneration thrive only when we stop resisting what is and celebrate all of life with acceptance of the NOW.
Health and Wellness is nourished with empathy, compassion innovation and connection—a total integration of the mind body, the heart body, the physical body and the energetic. ALL are worthy of self-care, self-acceptance and self-love.


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