David BrimacombePost-concussion syndrome (PCS) recovery coach

Your Nervous System Isn’t Trying to Stop Your PCS Recovery #postconcussionsyndrome #PCS recovery

10 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, David Brimacombe explains that the nervous system’s resistance—manifested as anxiety, tension, or a feeling to stop—when a person adopts new recovery strategies for post‑concussion syndrome (PCS) is not a protective alarm about actual danger. Instead, it reflects a clash with the identity the person formed while stuck in a prolonged recovery state. The brain is trying to keep the familiar pattern, so any new approach feels threatening to that established self‑concept, not because it will cause harm.

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not that simple, okay? Your brain is constantly trying to keep you safe. So anytime you implement a new strategy, a new system, and you feel those— that resistance in your nervous system, that anxiety, that tension, that basically your body telling you we need to stop this, it's not because it fears that this is actually going to cause you harm, but it's going against your previous identity. It's going against what you were doing for so long, what you were doing when you were stuck in that state of recovery, okay? Now you're trying something new.