Protect Your Energy helps us connect to our bodies and our inner wisdom to make the powerful changes we need to reclaim control of the thousands of ways our energy is drained and depleted each day.
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We live in a world of more―work more, earn more, do more―when most of us actually need less. We intuitively know we need less stress, less anxiety, less burnout, but we don’t always know how to make those tangible shifts in our lives.
Protect Your Energy: A Gentle Guide to Nurture Your Nervous System, Cultivate Rest, and Honor Your Needs helps us compassionately learn to listen to the messages our bodies are sending us through our nervous system and to do less instead of more. With evidence-based practices drawn from Polyvagal Theory, as well as yogic philosophy and personal experience, Zabie shares practical wisdom to help us turn inward to effect small but vital changes that make living in our fast-paced culture more sustainable. Protect Your Energy offers reflections to help us understand both where we are and where we want to go, and it’s filled with restorative and accessible practices to help us understand our energy drains, set and hold supportive boundaries, unwind burnout, and much more.
As Zabie shares, “The truth is sometimes what our nervous systems need is less. You hold the wisdom, beauty, and power you need to find relief. And amid all of the noise, your connection to your body and nervous system is your most important teacher.”
What OTHERS are saying about PROTECT YOUR ENERGY:
"This book is a balm to my nervous system. Zabie Yamasaki does so much more than remind us to rest--she helps us lay the groundwork for a life that feels nourishing and supportive, even in challenging times." - Alex Elle, author of After the Rain and How We Heal
"In this beautiful ode to lightening our loads, Zabie shows us the true strength in living more softly. With nervous-system-informed practices, these teachings don't just shape our calendars but help our bodies and minds find more ease in the busyness of life. A must-read for these times." - Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play and Find Your Unicorn Space
“Protect Your Energy feels like sitting with a trusted friend, reminding you to slow down, breathe, and honor the sacred within you. A timely guide for our times.” - Lalah Delia, author of Vibrate Higher Daily
"... teachings that will liberate the heart, mind, body, and spirit of all who read it. Zabie's uniquely compassionate, wise, and tender words are like medicine in this fast, often overwhelming world; this book offers a source of heartful support, expansive expertise, and embodied care for all who are longing for more ease, peace, and presence. What a true gift."- Lisa Olivera, LMFT, author of Already Enough and When the Ache Remains
“With tenderness and clarity, Zabie offers not just permission but practical tools to reclaim our wholeness in a world that pulls us away from ourselves. Through lived wisdom, embodied science, and soulful practice, she guides us home to our bodies and reminds us that rest, boundaries, and self-tending are acts of liberation." - Devi Brown - Wellbeing Educator, host of 'Deeply Well' & Author of 'Living in Wisdom'
"... a permission slip in book form. These words are a necessary soft landing for the overachievers, readers of the room who often confuse the emotions and fears of others as their own. This book could not have come at a better time for those of us who are overwhelmed, overstimulated, and looking to invite more ease into their lives..." Arielle Estoria- Poet, Author of "The Unfolding, an invitation to come home to yourself”
“In a world that constantly pulls us away from our center, Zabie’s words offer a sacred and tender landing space for our nervous system. With grace and depth, she weaves her lived experience, clinical wisdom, and an extraordinary gift for language that both holds and heals.”- Christine Mark-Griffin, LCSW, RYT, EMDR Consultant, author of EMDR Workbook for Kids
“With wisdom, clarity, and tenderness, Zahabiyah Yamasaki shares the healing gift of authentic guidance for our overscheduled, overstimulated, and often disconnected lives. She gently invites readers to meet themselves where they are and to embrace themselves with acceptance, love, and care. A much-needed refuge for our times.” - Wendy O’Leary, Co-author of Growing Self-Compassionate Children and author of the children’s book, It’s OK
“...like being wrapped in a warm, weighted blanket. On every page, Zabie’s soothing voice offers wisdom and compassion. She seamlessly weaves together her expertise of burnout and nervous system repair, along with the depth of her own lived experience.” - Molly Nourmand, LMFT, Founder + Clinical Director of Life After Birth®
“This isn’t a book about quick fixes or self-optimization. It’s a reclamation. It is the remembering that tending to our own energy is an act of resistance in a culture that profits from our exhaustion. Zabie’s voice is both balm and blueprint: gentle, grounded, and profoundly transformative. A companion for anyone who has ever over-given, over-functioned, or quietly burned out while caring for others. This book changed my life.” - Sahar Martinez, Psy.D, LMFT, PMH-C,, Founder, the process wellness collective
“What compassionate wisdom for somatic resilience! With her background as a trauma-informed yoga educator, Zabie brings undeniable authority and also unwavering empathy. The book is a collection of approachable, body-centered practices paired with supremely kind language. You come away feeling both seen and empowered.”- Susanna Barkataki, Author Ignite Your Yoga & Embrace Yoga's Roots
"... a permission slip in book form. These words are a necessary soft landing for the overachievers, readers of the room who often confuse the emotions and fears of others as their own. This book could not have come at a better time for those of us who are overwhelmed, overstimulated, and looking to invite more ease into their lives..." - Eileen Rosete, MSMFT, CYT 200, DONA Certified Postpartum Doula, author of to tend and to hold and founder, our sacred women
