Nourishing Your Nervous System - from survival mode to ease, resilience, and reclamation.
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Nourishing Your Nervous System: A guide - from survival mode to ease, resilience, and reclamation.
This month, we are giving our nervous systems some good loving.
Nourishing and tending to ourselves right now is more powerful than you may think. In a society that glorifies self-care and, at the same time, makes us feel shame for needing it, actually doing it—actually caring for ourselves—is an act of rebellion. And for those of us with swelling hearts, holding so many emotions at once, we need to remind ourselves that to sustain the fight, to live full and abundant lives, to show up for one another, we must take care of ourselves.
There are so many ways we can do this. This month, we are pushing against fear, chaos, and distractions by learning how to nourish our nervous system.
Our intuition is screaming at us.
Not whispering. Not gently nudging. Screaming.
We are in a constant cycle of crisis, uncertainty, exhaustion. We have been in survival mode for so long, some of us don’t even remember what it feels like to not be bracing for impact.
—we are worthy of care.
Nourishing the nervous system is not a luxury. It is not a trend, or something we do only if we have time. It is necessary. It is survival. It is remembering that we are not machines, that we were never meant to live in a state of constant fear and worry.
This guide—nourishing our nervous system—is an invitation to soothe your body, regulate your energy, and foster resilience.