Noticing

Name: Noticing
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ISBN: 9780645898248

An Embodied Understanding of Experience

Joanna Joustra

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English

Thinking Room Publishing
06 February 2026

Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Self-help & personal development

Noticing is a book about learning how experience actually unfolds, moment by moment, from the inside.

Most of us do not feel lost because we lack insight. We feel lost because our inner world moves faster than we can stay with. Thoughts gather speed. Emotion gains force. The body tightens and adapts. By the time we arrive, the moment already feels decided.

Written as lived experience and grounded in contemporary neuroscience, Noticing gently brings the reader into the movement of experience as it forms. It shows how the nervous system anticipates and adjusts, why emotions can feel so convincing, and how meaning takes shape through sensation, memory, attention, and context.

Using the steady metaphor of a river, the book follows experience from its quiet beginnings through the currents of thought, feeling, and action. Along the way, the reader learns to recognise the early signals of strain, the familiar pull of urgency, and the subtle ways care and contact change what becomes possible. Choice is not presented as something imposed from outside, but as something that emerges when the system has enough room to sense more than one signal at once.

As the book unfolds, the river widens into shared water. Noticing explores how experience is shaped between people as much as within them. Rooms carry tone. Conversations have weight. Nervous systems respond to one another constantly, often before words arrive. This relational field becomes part of the journey, inviting a wider understanding of responsibility, presence, and connection.

This is a book to read slowly. It is reflective, embodied, and attentive to the texture of everyday life. For readers drawn to nervous system understanding, emotional experience, and embodied self-awareness, Noticing offers a steadier place to stand inside the flow of a human life.

A return to noticing, again and again, right where you are.

By: Joanna Joustra
Imprint: Thinking Room Publishing
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 266g
ISBN: 9780645898248
ISBN 10: 0645898244
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 06 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joanna Joustra is a writer and counsellor whose work focuses on how experience forms in the body, the mind, and between people. Grounded in contemporary neuroscience and phenomenology, her work translates complex ideas about the nervous system into lived understanding. She is particularly interested in overthinking, emotional reactivity, and the ways meaning tightens under load, often before conscious choice is available. Joanna is the creator of The Noticing Way, a framework and course that supports embodied awareness, nervous system literacy, and relational presence. Her writing is reflective and experiential, inviting readers to meet experience from the inside rather than analyse it from a distance. She lives and works in the Yarra Valley, Australia.

Reviews for Noticing: An Embodied Understanding of Experience

""You can feel the author's kindness, wisdom, and helpfulness on every page. Step by step, warmly and easily, she guides us to find inner quiet, strength and happiness - that we so need these noisy days.""- Rick Hanson, Ph.D., New York Times Best Selling Author - Hardwiring Happiness Joanna provides simple tools that enhance clarity of thought, bringing more awareness of the choices we have over the stories we tell ourselves, the life we want to live and the person we aspire to be. Could not recommend more. - Amazon Book Review So much of the book has enlightened me, and switched on parts of my consciousness that I never knew existed.-Amazon Book Review Filled with powerful tools and knowledge, Joanna has created a compassionate and powerful space to bring about peace of mind and utilise these techniques as we journey through this life.- Google Book Review