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Our nervous systems are shaped in relationship. When a young child’s distress is met, soothed,
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You can be capable, respected, and outwardly composed, while your jaw tightens before the board meeting, your inbox stays open at midnight, and the same argument returns at home.

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View fullsize Why do we keep returning to patterns we know are hurting us?

It’s rarely a lack of discipline. Before your nervous system asks whether something is good for you, it asks whether it’s safe. And to the body, familiar feels safe, even when
View fullsize Why do some people feel instantly like home, even when being with them leaves us anxious, exhausted, or unseen?

Part of the answer lies in the nervous system. As children, our bodies learned what connection felt like from the people around us. If lo
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