Your nervous system isn't overreacting. It's reading the room. A post on what the nervous system regulation industry gets wrong, what your body is actually doing, and what therapy looks like when it starts from a different place.

You understand your patterns. You know where they came from. And you still wake up feeling the same way in your body. Somatic therapy works at the level where that gap actually lives, and it requires a completely different kind of attention than insight alone can provide.

You know the vocabulary. You've done the work, or something that looked like it. And you still wake up feeling the same way. Here's what being stuck in therapy is often actually telling you, and what a different approach, and a different kind of therapeutic relationship, might reach.