Your body remembers stress and trauma your mind thinks it forgot. A familiar tone or name can trigger your heart to race because your nervous system stored it as a threat. These reactions aren't weakness, they're signals you can learn to update.
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Your body remembered that even when you decided to move on. You told yourself you were over it, that thing that happened. You processed it, you moved on, you let it go, you made peace with it, you're fine. And then someone uses the same tone, or you walk into a room that feels like the that room. Or a certain name shows up on your phone and before you've finished a single thought, your body is already in it. Heart rate up, stomach tight, full reaction for something you're over. You weren't lying when you said it. When you said you would move on, your mind did, but your body filed it away differently. See, because your body, it keeps score, not to punish you, but because that's how it was designed to keep you safe. When you understand that, the reaction stops feeling like weakness and it starts feeling like information. See, your body isn't broken. It's just been running an old program, and old programs can be updated. Today's video breaks down exactly how the body stores the stress, and what it takes to actually update the file. Link is in the bio. Don't scroll past this one.