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0 points: healthiest option (top of list)
1 point: next healthiest
2 points: mid
3 points: high survival indicator
4 points: strongest survival indicator
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Results & Messaging
0–6 points:
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Creation Mode – Your nervous system spends most of its time in safety, flow, and restoration. You have good resilience and can bounce back from stress with ease.
Keep nurturing your body’s natural rhythm — and explore deeper practices to expand your capacity.
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7–14 points:
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Transition Mode – You’re moving between survival and creation states. Sometimes you feel grounded and calm; other times stress lingers longer than you’d like.
With daily regulation practices, you can tip the balance toward creation and restore your energy, clarity, and joy.
15–24 points:
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High Survival Mode – Your body is working hard just to get through the day. You may feel stuck in tension, exhaustion, or emotional overwhelm.
The good news? Your nervous system can learn safety again. Small, simple daily practices can help you return to calm, clarity, and creation.
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About the Return
The nervous system and creation speak the same language — just in different alphabets.​
One is written in nerve signals and breath, the other in rivers and stars.
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Both are calling us home.
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The nervous system can’t just think itself home — it must physiologically return.
When your body learns to regulate, you shift from survival into creation:
from bracing through each day, to living with clarity, energy, and purpose.
The Return is a restorative program — a circular, transformational homecoming to your source, your identity, and your wholeness. It’s about bringing something back to its original state or purpose, and discovering it’s even richer for having been lost and found again.
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In this journey, you will:
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Reclaim a regulated, resilient nervous system.
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Restore connection to your true self and purpose.
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Learn small, daily practices that create lasting change.
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You’ll learn the science of your own nervous system, so you can understand what your body needs and why.
Are there places in you that still long for something deeper?
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Do you live from survival — or from creation?
The Return invites you to come home.
My story
My story is one of survival — and return.
A few major traumas shaped my life, and for years I did what most of us do: I pushed through. Day after day, smile after smile, I kept going even when my body was begging for rest. Survival became my way of living.
But survival is not the whole story.
Corinne Badenhorst
About 16 years ago, on a camp, an elderly woman I had never met looked at me and spoke a word that stayed buried in my heart:
“You are like someone who can tune pianos. You can sense when someone or something is not in tune and bring it back into harmony. But first, you need to learn to play again.”
For a long time, I didn’t know how. I carried trauma, anxiety, inflammation, exhaustion. I knew the science. I knew the words. But I hadn’t yet returned to the music of my own soul.
And then — slowly, gently — I began to play again.
One breath. One pause. One step out of pushing and into presence.
One choice to trust that my nervous system could heal.
One opening to God’s design of wholeness, safety, and flow.
Life began to change. Not instantly, but steadily. The spark returned. Flow returned. Creativity and joy returned.
This is what The Return was born from — not theory, but a lived journey.
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With more than 24 years as an Occupational Therapist, my work has been shaped not only by my own return, but also by walking alongside hundreds of others. From hospital wards to group-therapy rooms, from program development to one-on-one care, I have carried a deep passion for understanding the nervous system and translating complex trauma-informed science into tools that actually work in everyday life.
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This journey has led me into training in psychoneuroimmunology, HeartMath certifications in anxiety and trauma, polyvagal theory, and somatic regulation. Each layer of study confirmed what my heart already knew: that our bodies are designed for flow, and that when survival softens, the soul finds its song again.
I carry a love for science and for ancient scripture, for the way the nervous system and soul mirror one another, for the beauty that emerges when survival softens into creation.
My heart is for people to know:
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You are not broken. You are not too far gone.
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Your body and soul can remember how to trust again.
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There is music waiting in you too.
This is not just my story — it can be yours.
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A way back to yourself.
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A way back to flow.
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A way back to the beauty of life.
The science behind the Return
As an occupational therapist specialising in nervous system regulation, psychoneuroimmunology, and heart–brain coherence, I’ve spent years helping clients understand how their bodies and brains respond to stress.
When we live in survival mode — fight, flight, or freeze — our bodies prioritise short-term protection over long-term health.
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Stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline stay high.
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The prefrontal cortex (your creativity, clarity, and decision-making) goes offline.
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Digestion, immune function, and repair slow down.
When we shift into creation mode — the state your body was designed for — everything changes.
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The vagus nerve signals safety, lowering heart rate and blood pressure.
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Heart rate variability (HRV) rises, showing adaptability and resilience.
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Your brain reconnects logic, creativity, and empathy.
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Your body starts repairing, digesting, restoring.​
Survival vs. Creation
The Return is where the heart meets the science — so you can move out of survival and live from creation.
Whats inside the Return
The Return is where your spirit, soul, and body come back into alignment.
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It’s where your nervous system finally learns safety, your mind finds clarity, and your heart remembers what it’s like to fully belong to yourself.
Because here’s the truth: when you’re regulated, you stop running from life — and you start creating it.
And not just any life — your life. The one you were made for.
When you come home to your body, you become empowered to:
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Build relationships that feel connected, safe, and nourishing
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Create health that fuels energy, joy, and longevity
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Step into work and business with clarity, creativity, and confidence
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Grow finances from a place of stability and expansion, not fear
If your nervous system isn’t regulated, everything else you do is like moving furniture around in a burning house.
You can’t build a thriving life on a body that’s stuck in survival.
First, we put out the fire. Then we create.
This isn’t just “learning about” regulation.
It’s living it until it’s second nature — so that every area of your life rises to meet you.
How you can begin your Return
