Mastering Coaching Skills 281. What Your Nervous System Has to Do With Showing Up as a Coach with Dorit Wright
Mar 17, 2026
Dorit Wright, a somatic self-leadership coach who helps ambitious women regulate their nervous systems and build self-trust. They explore how survival-mode reactions create procrastination and start/stop cycles. Dorit shares simple body-based practices, movement and breath tools, and how integrating nervous system work with identity makes taking action feel more grounded.
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All In Then Shut Down Is A Nervous System Pattern
- Coaches often cycle between going “all in” on business and then shutting down because their nervous system moves into survival responses, not because of strategy failure.
- Lindsay noticed Dorit’s pattern of intense starts and long withdrawals and reframed it as a nervous-system-driven cycle needing regulation, not willpower alone.
Group Co-Regulation Boosts Learning
- Group co-regulation amplifies coaching: one person's vulnerability relaxes others so coaching sinks in even for those not in the hot seat.
- Dorit experiences softening in groups that lets her receive coaching she didn't know she needed.
Turning Grief Into Somatic Coaching Work
- Dorit became a coach after COVID and the death of her husband, which forced deep identity and survival work leading her to somatic coaching.
- She used nervous system regulation to move from freeze/avoidance into actions like building a website and weekly emails years after being told to do so.