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Learning to Breathe Again

Learning to Breathe Again

For many years, my nervous system had one job: survive. Not survive in the dramatic sense. I wasn’t running from danger every day. But I was the pillar. The decision maker. The one carrying five children, a nonprofit, a home, and all the unseen weight that life quietly places on your shoulders.  When you’re the only one holding everything together, something remarkable happens. You become incredibly capable. You also become armored.

Staying Steady in an Unsteady World

Staying Steady in an Unsteady World

For many years of my life, probably from my early teens until my late thirties, my emotional world often felt like a roller coaster. My inner state depended almost entirely on what was happening around me. A phone call could lift me up or send me crashing down. An interaction with someone, a financial situation, a conversation with my spouse, an unexpected challenge, all of these external events determined how I felt that day.