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What if the way you protect yourself is a map to your deepest wounds?
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Not all trauma shows up on the outside. Sometimes, it’s in the way you flinch when someone gets too close, or how you shut down when emotions get real. These are not personality flaws—they’re protective behaviors your nervous system developed to keep you safe. But over time, these same defenses can block the very…
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Your Emotional Numbness Isn’t Apathy—It’s Exhaustion
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If you’ve ever felt emotionally numb—like nothing really reaches you anymore—you’re not broken. You’re just exhausted from feeling too much for too long. Your nervous system has shut down as a survival response, not because you don’t care, but because your brain couldn’t process any more emotional overload. In this post, we’ll explore why…