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Practical insights about your nervous system. What happens in your body during stress, overstimulation and exhaustion, and what you can do about it.
Always on: living with a nervous system that won't settle
Your body is switched on, even when nothing is wrong. My story of a nervous system that won't settle.
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Functional freeze: why you keep functioning but stopped feeling
You perform, but you feel nothing. Functional freeze is your nervous system's autopilot mode.
Why you cannot seem to relax even when nothing is wrong
Your body remembers danger, even long after it has passed. How your amygdala works with stress and trauma.
Highly sensitive and easily overstimulated? This is what happens in your nervous system and what you can do about it.
Sounds hit harder, a busy room wears you out. What happens in a highly sensitive nervous system.
The polyvagal ladder: which state is your nervous system in?
Sometimes wired, sometimes empty, sometimes finally present. Those are not moods. Those are the three states of your nervous system.
What are resources? The key to nervous system regulation
Your nervous system cannot heal from a constant state of activation. It needs an anchor point.
Grounding: the simplest exercise for an overstimulated nervous system
When stress hits, most people go into their heads. But the nervous system is not reached through thinking.
The vagus nerve: your recovery nerve (and how to activate it)
The longest nerve of your autonomic nervous system, and the direct connection between your brain and your body.
What is the window of tolerance? (And why it is the key to recovery)
Some days you can handle almost anything. Other days the smallest setback overwhelms you. That difference has a name.
Burnout recovery: why your nervous system blocks rest and what actually helps
Weeks of rest, and the exhaustion remains. That is not a sign you are doing it wrong.
What is a dysregulated nervous system? Symptoms, causes and recovery explained
Tired before the day has begun, switched on without any real danger. There is a name for that.
Coming home to myself: a journey of healing and self-acceptance
On the outside everything worked fine. On the inside my nervous system was always on.
Somatic Experiencing: healing stress and trauma through the wisdom of the body
Understanding why you feel something is not the same as feeling it differently. That is exactly where SE begins.