True You Collective and the Nervous System Reboot – Exclusive Interview with Sicadia-Paige

In this exclusive interview, Sicadia-Paige shares the transformative power of the Nervous System Reboot™, a unique approach combining science-based therapies and intuitive healing. Explore how this groundbreaking method helps clients overcome stress, grief, and physical discomfort while restoring balance and clarity to their nervous system.

Sicadia-Paige, Vibroacoustic Therapist and Myofunctional Therapist

Your professional journey has taken you from science-based clinical work to creating a space centered on nervous system healing. What was the turning point that made you step away from your former career and build True You Collective?

I worked as a dental hygienist for over two decades, a career built on precision, protocols, and measurable outcomes. But there's a side of dentistry most people never see. As a hygienist, I spent far more time with patients than the dentist, yet I had little influence over their long-term care. There was an unspoken expectation to "produce," to upsell, and to ensure the numbers justified your presence. I had incredible moments working with dentists who trusted my judgment, but those freedoms only lasted until they clashed with bottom-line priorities.

Over the years, I became an expert at navigating those waters, giving authentic care while working inside a system that often valued speed over depth. But that came at a cost to my health, integrity, and nervous system. I promised myself that if the job demands ever outweighed my ability to do what I felt was right, I would walk away.

Eventually, that moment came. I left a six-figure salary, stepped into deep debt, and built True You Collective from the ground up. I knew I was taking a risk, but I also knew I could no longer be part of a system that forced me to choose between my integrity and someone else's wellness.

You often speak about your work as bridging science and soul. Can you share how your healthcare background and intuitive gifts came together in your current approach?

Even while working clinically, this parallel track was always running in me, what I call my "soul work." I've been intuitive since childhood, able to read a room, sense emotions, and feel what others held long before they said a word. My hands were in people's mouths, doing exacting, technical work, but my mind and spirit were always tuned into something more profound: their stress, their grief, their unspoken needs.

In dental care, I learned anatomy, physiology, and the art of precision. But outside the operatory, I was quietly expanding my skills, becoming certified in myofunctional therapy, vibroacoustic therapy, alternative energy therapies, learning grief support as an End-of-Life Doula, exploring craniosacral therapy, channeling messages, and speaking and writing about healing. At the time, it seemed like two separate worlds.

It wasn't until my health and life fell apart that I saw how they could merge. Science gave me discipline and structure; intuition gave me empathy and insight. The Nervous System Reboot™ is the bridge between the two, a way to honor the measurable and the mystical in the same session.

The term Nervous System Reboot™ is intriguing. How would you explain what it means, and why it's so important right now, to someone hearing it for the first time?

I tell people to imagine their nervous system like a computer's operating system. If it's running outdated software, cluttered with too many tabs open, or bogged down by viruses, it can't function the way it's designed to. The Nervous System Reboot™ is like a clean reinstall; it helps restore order to the signals running through your body so everything works as it should.

Most people live in constant "fight, flight, or freeze" without realizing it. The body adapts to stress until it starts to feel normal, but that continuous state of alert slowly erodes your ability to heal, sleep, think clearly, and regulate emotions. Traditional medicine might treat the symptoms, but if you don't address the root, the nervous system, you're chasing problems instead of resolving them.

The Reboot™ uses light, sound, vibration, and heat to remind the body what safety feels like, so it can stop bracing for impact and start repairing. Once your system remembers that baseline, everything else, physical healing, emotional release, or mental clarity, has a much stronger foundation to build on.

You've used modalities like red light therapy, vibroacoustics, and technodelic light in your healing. How did these help you in ways that traditional medicine couldn't?

For years, I did what most people do when something's wrong, you go to the doctor, take the tests, and try the treatments. After a traumatic birth, major surgery, chronic pain, thyroid issues, and grief, I was told to "get used to it" or manage with medication. I wasn't interested in numbing symptoms; I wanted to get to the source.

When I found red light therapy, it was the first time I felt inflammation begin to honestly calm and saw shifts in my mood. It felt like my whole system exhaled. With vibroacoustic therapy, I noticed something even more specific: my anxiety started to melt away almost instantly, and I began to understand which frequencies felt nourishing versus which ones agitated me. Later, when I trained in vibroacoustic therapy, the science validated and confirmed what my body had already told me. It was the same with red light; the research supported what I had intuitively felt from my first session.

To this day, I crave both. If I've gone days without them or have a tough day, I know exactly which frequency to select and which modalities to use. That's why I designed True You Collective the way I did, to give clients the same access, not just to what the mainstream says about what I offer, but to the ability to experience what I did and allow us to collaborate on their care by honing in on what truly works for their unique system. If they don't know where to start, I can guide them based on their results and feedback.

What's fascinating is that I was initially led to each of these therapies for a single reason, pain relief and stress reduction, but quickly realized they were working on levels I didn't even know needed attention. That's what clients tell me, too: they come for one thing but end up leaving with so much more.

Grief is a thread running through your personal life and work. How has it shaped your approach to healing?

Grief has been my shadow and teacher for as long as I can remember. It was there when my father left at age five, when I lost the grandparents who helped raise me, when I endured sexual assault as a teenager, and when my first marriage ended in my late twenties. It was woven into motherhood, the loss of identity, the changing body, the moments no one warns you about. And it hit me with full force in the years that followed: career transitions, financial collapse, losing people I loved, and the death of my best friend and soul sister.

For a long time, I treated grief like something to outrun. I buried myself in work, responsibilities, and helping others so I didn't have to sit with it. But the truth is, grief doesn't go away when you ignore it, it just changes form. It can live in your body as pain, inflammation, or fatigue. It can cloud your thoughts and weigh down your spirit.

One of my most profound plant medicine journeys changed everything. I was shown a dark room, a space I had feared my whole life because I associated it with loss and uncertainty. A remarkable human who facilitated encouraged me to explore it instead of running from it. Months later, we named it together: The Room of Uncertainty. It became a turning point for me. I realized that inside that room were the stories, lessons, and transformations that had shaped me.

Now, I see the same thing in my clients. The safest, most powerful healing happens when we stop pushing grief away and instead create space to be with it, supported, witnessed, and understood. That's what True You Collective has become: a space where people can step into their Room of Uncertainty and find the courage to move through it.

You've mentioned having a "Neo moment" that changed everything for you. What do you mean by that?

I joke that I'm about to age myself every time I bring this up, but there's a scene in The Matrix where Neo raises his hand and says, "No." Everything stops, not out of anger but out of clarity and power.

For me, that moment came after years of silent suffering, battling chronic pain, thyroid issues, adrenal fatigue, anxiety that had started morphing into anger, and the grief of losing my best friend. I was still showing up for others, still working, still "functioning," but I was utterly disconnected from my own body. My nervous system was screaming at me to stop.

One day, it hit me: no more. No more band-aid fixes. No more overriding my own needs. No more abandoning myself to keep going. That moment didn't just change my trajectory; it redefined my definition of healing.

It inspired the Nervous System Reboot™: the idea that true healing isn't about fixing what's "broken"; it's about reminding the body how to feel safe, connected, and whole again. That was my "Neo moment." Now, I get to help other people find theirs.

Can you share some transformations you've seen with the Nervous System Reboot™?

What I love about this work is how often the results surprise people, sometimes even me. I've watched widows release years of held grief, and in one case, I guided a father and his child through a journey where they not only processed the loss of their wife and mother but also deepened their bond in the process.

Surprisingly, I've had more male clients than I expected; many come in for physical issues like pain or injuries. Still, they keep coming back because the mental overwhelm they've been carrying starts to dissolve after just a few sessions. One man told me that after three or four visits, his constant mental to-do list felt quieter, and he was sleeping soundly for the first time in years.

I've seen shoulder and back pain that had lingered for decades improve dramatically within three to ten visits, and in some cases, never return. I've seen inflammation markers drop, and even lymph node nodules disappear after three sessions. Hip pain and fascia restrictions have eased so much for some clients that they stand taller, walk more easily, and move with a freedom they thought was gone for good.

And then there's the deeper work, helping people living with PTSD, anxiety, and grief. With the Reboot™, I often see shifts immediately: a softening in their expression, a lighter energy in the room. For those who commit to longer-term work, say, 24 visits, the changes are held. They transition to coming once a week or once a month, using it to maintain clarity and stability, like a nervous system "tune-up."

No matter the reason they come in, most leave saying the same thing: "I didn't realize how much I was carrying until it was gone."

What's your long-term vision for True You Collective and the Nervous System Reboot™?

Right now, True You Collective is based in Arvada, Colorado, but my vision has always been much bigger than a single location. I want to bring the Nervous System Reboot™ to communities all over the country because people everywhere are living with stress, grief, and pain that they've been told to "manage" instead of resolve.

I see multiple locations in multiple states, each a space where people can come to reset, regulate, and reconnect with their ability to heal. For those who can't physically come to us, I'm exploring ways to create mobile or pop-up experiences so that this work can reach rural areas or communities without access to these modalities.

Part of my "reboot" reminded me how much I love speaking, writing, and teaching. I want to expand onto bigger platforms, whether in front of an audience, on a podcast, or through books and articles. For me, it's not just about growing a business; it's about sparking a shift in how we think about healing.

I want people to see nervous system care as something we normalize, like brushing our teeth or going to the gym, not just something you do when falling apart. That shift in mindset, paired with accessible places to experience it, could change lives far beyond the walls of my first space.

What truly drives you to do this work?

What drives me is knowing how much pain people are quietly buried in, physical pain, emotional pain, and the mental weight of carrying it all without real relief. I've been there. I know what it's like to live in a body that feels like it's betraying you, to wake up with a mind already in overdrive, and to grieve losses that have no words.

When I work with someone, I'm not just seeing their symptoms; I'm seeing the years, sometimes decades, of strain that led them here. My mission is to help peel those layers back, give the nervous system a chance to remember safety, and show people that their bodies can still heal.

What keeps me going is the transformation I get to witness. The moment someone stands up straighter, smiles for the first time in months, or tells me they finally slept through the night, that's everything to me. It's not just about the absence of pain, but about restoring the parts of themselves they thought were lost forever.

At its heart, healing is a remembering. My work is to help people reconnect with themselves and let them know they don't have to do it alone.

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