What a dysregulated Nervous System can feel like:

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🔥Overdrive: a racing heart, clenched jaw, tight chest or stomach. Constant muscle bracing. Racing thoughts. You just can’t seem to relax for long no matter what you do.

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👎Shut down: numb, checked out and exhausted. You find it difficult to feel anything and are just going through the motions. 

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✨Regulated: able to relax and enjoy your life in the moment with a calm mind and relaxed body.

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It does not mean being perfectly calm and happy 100% of the time. Instead, a regulated nervous system is responsive. 

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You can feel nervous or sad. You allow emotions and are able to process them and return to your baseline once the stressor has passed. You can roll with it. 

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When your nervous system is dysregulated it can automatically impact your sleep and breathing. And so much more.

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🛏️Sleep: can cause light sleep, feeling wired at bedtime or cortisol spikes at the wrong time where you might wake up suddenly with racing heart.

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🫁Breathing: shallow and fast breathing along with muscle tension that limits our ability to breathe deeply.

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This is just one of the foundations we work on for better sleep and breathing.

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