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View fullsize When the nervous system is overloaded, even small stressors can create outsized reactions. Dr. Shadé Zahrai ➡️ @shadezahrai uses the metaphor of a ping pong ball versus a golf ball falling into water to represent the impact of our triggers on
View fullsize When the nervous system shifts into survival mode, the body begins prioritizing protection over flexibility. Fight, flight, freeze, and even fawn responses are designed to help humans survive threatening situations, but when the nervous system become
View fullsize Your nervous system was never meant to carry this much for this long. If you’ve been feeling reactive, exhausted, frozen, overstimulated, emotionally flooded, or unable to truly rest… your body may not be failing you. It may be trying t
View fullsize We don’t always receive clarity before acting. Often clarity is actually revealed after taking the first step and listening to how it feels. This can be tough for the more anxious or traumatized among us, which makes the work of self-growth an
View fullsize Our bodies are constantly offering us information by way of the senses– tension, ease, curiosity, resistance, heat, or a sense of calm coolness. Learning to trust yourself begins with noticing and reading these sensations or impulses as signa
View fullsize The trick to decreasing the agony of making the most aligned decision for you is to act without further questioning or second-guessing. This may sound impossible to many, but the key to progress is in your willingness to bring the mind back when it w
View fullsize Self-trust is not something you find, it has to be built from the inside. Through an evolving relationship with your internal world. Self-trust is not only repairable, but it stays dynamic– built through honesty, responsiveness, and making di
View fullsize After the fact, you might realize your voice of intuition was there all along– it was just being talked over. So what gets in the way of having a trusting relationship with yourself? Read more in this month’s blog, “Building Self