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Healing doesn’t start with a thought.
It starts with a signal.
ADHD • Autism • Anxiety • Sensory Challenges • Neurodivergence • Stress
LifeBoat
LifeBoat is a guided program designed to help you regulate your nervous system, improve focus, and break free from chronic stress, anxiety, and overwhelm. LifeBoat helps you reconnect your brain and body using simple, science-backed techniques that actually work in real life.
Whether you're navigating ADHD, sensory overload, or emotional burnout, this program gives you practical tools to feel calm, clear, and in control without relying on willpower alone. LifeBoat isn’t about fixing you... it’s about helping you finally work with your brain, not against it.
The Brain Follows
Your brain isn’t the driver—it’s the mirror. In his groundbreaking new book, The Brain Follows, Dr. Jim Costello reveals why lasting mental health starts in the body, not the mind.
Through his signature Costello Method, you'll discover how movement, rhythm, and nervous system reconnection can transform anxiety, shutdown, and chronic stress at the root—not just manage the symptoms
Dr. Jim Costello
Dr. Jim Costello is a clinician, educator, and creator of The Costello Method—a movement-based approach to healing that begins in the body, not the mind. He’s the author of The Brain Follows: Why Mental Health Begins in the Body, and founder of LifeBoat, a membership and community that helps people move from insight into lasting change.
For over twenty years, Jim has supported trauma survivors, overwhelmed adults, neurodivergent children, and the people who care for them. His work is grounded in one clear belief: healing doesn’t happen by thinking harder. It happens when the nervous system finally learns it’s safe.
His work isn’t about fixing what’s broken.
It’s about helping people stop bracing, rebuild trust in their body, and finally feel at home in themselves.
Because when the body leads, the brain follows—and everything begins to change.
New Book Coming Soon: The Brain Follows
Why Mental Health Begins in the Body
$15.00
“Your brain isn’t the driver. It’s the mirror.”
You’ve done the work. You’ve tried the tools. You’ve told your story in therapy, practiced the breathing techniques, repeated the affirmations. But your body still tightens. Your mind still spins. Some part of you still doesn’t feel safe.
In The Brain Follows, Dr. Jim Costello offers a deeply human reframe: mental health doesn’t begin in the mind—it begins in the body. And for many of us, the root of anxiety, shutdown, and emotional dysregulation isn’t a thinking problem—it’s the residue of unprocessed trauma living in a nervous system primed for protection, and struggling for safety.
Drawing from decades of work with trauma survivors, neurodivergent children, and high-performing professionals, Costello introduces The Costello Method—a body-first framework designed to rewire the stress response at its source. Through movement, rhythm, and sensory input—and proprioception, the body's internal GPS—this book shows how to rebuild the communication between body and brain that trauma and chronic stress disrupts. Through lived experience and accessible neuroscience, you’ll see that regulation doesn’t come from control—it comes from reconnection.
You’ll learn:
• Why talk therapy and mindset work often stall when trauma is held in the body
• How stress patterns are built into your neurology—and how to change them
• Why you react before you can think—and how to reclaim that space
• The role of movement, rhythm, and reflex integration in rebuilding resilience
• How to stop coping and start reorganizing your system from the inside out
This isn’t a book about managing symptoms. It’s a guide to resolving what’s underneath them.
To help your system come home to itself—safely, gently, and in your own time. Because healing doesn’t start with a thought.
It starts with a signal. And when the body leads, The Brain Follows.
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