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THE HUMAN USER MANUAL

The Human User Manual (HUM) is your step by step guide to uncovering the wiring underneath your thoughts, emotions, and habits, the behind the scenes system that shapes your everyday life. When you understand how your nervous system works, you can stop fighting yourself, break old patterns, and start changing what is possible.

Finally, the missing manual for being human.

What you’ll learn:

  • Calm your nervous system and handle overwhelm with more ease

  • The autonomic nervous system explained in everyday language

  • Spot fight, flight, fawn, and freeze and begin to shift them

  • Recognize the patterns you didn’t choose and start rewriting them

  • Learn nervous system regulation tools that actually work for stress relief, emotional overwhelm, and lack of motivation

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Course Curriculum

  • Everything starts here. HUM is the missing manual for being human and this module sets the foundation for real, lasting change.

  • Your body’s watchtower never sleeps. Learn how your system constantly scans for safety, connection, and choice.

  • You were wired long before you could choose. See how early experiences shaped your patterns and how to work with them.

  • Your body doesn’t know the difference. How the little things in life keep you in survival mode.

  • Being stuck is not the same as being broken. Why try harder is not the answer and how change starts inside your nervous system.

  • Five states, one nervous system. Get to know relaxation plus fight, flight, fawn, and freeze in ways you haven’t considered.

  • This is the state you’ve been waiting for. How your built-in relaxation response gives you access to what you’ve been missing.

  • Meet your built in survival settings:


    8A: Stress Mode 101

    8B Fight: Attack & Push Back Mode

    8C Flight: Escape & Plan Mode

    8D Fawn: Peace keeping, Caretaking, People Pleasing Mode

    8E Freeze: Shut Down & Check Out Mode

  • Your body gives away the secret. Read the signals so you can shift with more ease.

  • Familiar≠ helpful. Why we get stuck in unwanted cycles and how to rewrite the loop.

  • Calm is not forced, it is rewired.

    11A: The Myths of Regulation

    11B :Tools That Actually Work

  • Now you’ve got the manual. What’s next? Keep building clarity, calm, and connection in everyday life.

Ready to start creating real change?

Understand your wiring, work with it instead of against it, and make life and relationships make more sense

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About Jen Carter

I’m certified both as an integrative health coach and as a relationship coach. Most clients call me their “life coach” though, as I specialize in the areas of personal, professional, and relationship growth.

As part of my coaching I help people understand how their nervous system runs the show so they can stop fighting themselves and start changing what is possible. HUM is my passion project because everyone deserves the manual that makes being human make more sense.

What You’re Wanting to Know

  • HUM includes about two content packed hours of video content, broken into 12 short modules plus a Breathing Break Library you can return to anytime.

  • Yes. Each module comes with two video options: one with captions and one without, so you can choose what works best for you.

  • You will have access for a long time, and my plan is to keep HUM available to you for at least two years. While no one can guarantee access forever because life and technology change, you can feel confident knowing you will have plenty of time to move through the material at your own pace.

  • Not at all. HUM explains complex ideas in simple, everyday language with practical tools you can use right away.

  • HUM is an advanced version of what I present to my one-on-one clients.

    It’s not about quick fixes or pep talks. It is the “missing manual” for your nervous system, showing you why you get stuck and how to work with your wiring instead of against it, so real change feels possible.

  • Absolutely. You can binge the modules in a weekend or take it slow and steady. The course is designed to fit your life, not the other way around.

  • Each module comes with reflection prompts in your downloadable Application Journal.

    These are not assignments you have to complete, they are invitations to pause, apply what you have learned, and notice your own “aha” moments.

  • Calming overwhelm is actually built into the course. Nervous system regulating breathing breaks are sprinkled throughout, and you will find all of them collected in the Breathing Break Library so you can reset anytime.

  • Absolutely! When you understand your nervous system (and everyone else’s). you gain an entirely new perspective on human interaction.

    In addition to the knowledge, HUM gives you tools to handle stress responses, communicate more clearly, and build deeper connection.

  • No. HUM is an educational, coaching-based course. It is designed to help you understand yourself and your wiring, but it is not a substitute for therapy or medical care.