Priya Nair, Clinical Reviewer

Clinical reviewer

Priya Nair

Clinical Reviewer

Priya Nair is a mental-health professional with a focus on stress, trauma responses, and the autonomic nervous system. She reviews Tuun's resources to make sure the way we describe functional freeze, numbness, and regulation stays grounded and accurate, and never overstates what a short daily practice can do. Her role is editorial review for accuracy and tone, not individual clinical care.

Reviewed by Priya Nair (4)

  • A woman in her late 40s with silver hair stands barefoot in a sunlit living room, eyes lowered, one hand resting on the opposite shoulder in a gentle neck-and-shoulder release, evoking a calm body-based somatic practice.
    Foundations

    Somatic exercises: what they are, and how to actually start

    Somatic exercises are small, body-first movements that signal safety to a stressed nervous system. Here's how they work, a beginner sequence, and how often to do them.

    Sofia Reyes
  • A man in his late 30s sits at a wooden desk by a sunlit window, an open laptop and notebooks in front of him, forehead resting against one hand as he stares past the screen, caught in a stalled can't-begin moment that captures functional freeze and ADHD task paralysis.
    Foundations

    Functional freeze and ADHD: when you can't tell which one is stopping you

    Functional freeze and ADHD task paralysis can look identical from the outside. How to tell them apart, and why the way out looks similar either way.

    Aaron Whitfield
  • An East Asian woman sits on the floor against a sofa with her eyes closed and one hand resting on her chest, breathing a slow exhale and visibly settling, evoking a nervous system reset.
    Foundations

    What a nervous system reset actually is (and what it isn't)

    A nervous system reset isn't a 30-second viral trick. It's small signals, repeated daily, that move your body out of a stuck state and back toward steady.

    Sofia Reyes
  • A woman sits at a desk with both hands resting on a closed laptop, looking down with a tired, switched-off expression in soft window light, evoking the can't-begin quality of functional freeze.
    Foundations

    You're not lazy. You might be in functional freeze.

    Feeling lazy and broken but somehow still functioning? It might not be laziness. It might be functional freeze, and there's a small daily way out.

    Clara