Threads of survival
What if dysregulation wasn’t the problem? What if not looking away was the salve? What if there was no rush? What if you didn’t need to pathologize yourself?
At the risk of expressing the understatement of the century: there is so much happening right now. With this comes grief, rage, confusion, disbelief, fight, flight, freeze, fawn, protective layers, hiding, & more, & more, & more.
With the so much also comes a desperate attempt to explain, fix, or understand these feelings. And with tons of Instagram nervous system practitioners offering short, quippy, digestible tips on how to know if you are dysregulated or how to become regulated, I brace myself.
This is not because I don’t believe in nervous system work — in fact, I think it’s some of the most important, vital, life-giving work we can do. It is more that, in these short, digestible graphics, there is so much that gets missed when people don’t discern what’s for them.