Nervous System Musings
I’ve been unpacking and sorting through all the parts of myself for so long now that some days I’m not even sure what it’s all for but I keep unpacking and sifting and rolling the pieces around in my hands to see what feels like truth today and then setting them back down, resting and waiting for the solutions to arrive. This process has started to have a shape and a rhythm for me so I thought I would write it all out in the hopes it might help you too. I’m on day 3 of a migraine. Listening to my body so closely I think I can hear it telling me to run which means I’m at the edge of something. When I feel the overwhelming urge to flee it has meant that I need to sit still and LISTEN HARDER. My body has been wrapped up in trauma and dysregulated for so long that the process of getting back to feeling ok is many steps long but I’m getting quicker at naming it and getting started. When everything seems so loud and unmanageable I can feel it quicker, name it and start regulating. Fo
