Healing at the Root

16. Why Your Nervous System Sabotages Healthy Relationships


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Ever feel like your body won’t let you relax into love?


You want connection but instead you snap, shut down, fawn, or pull away. It’s not that you’re broken. It’s your nervous system running old survival patterns.


You’ll learn from this episode:

  • Why “self-sabotage” in relationships is actually your nervous system in survival mode

  • How fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses replay in adulthood and hijack intimacy

  • Why love, kindness, or support can feel viscerally unsafe even without red flags

  • How unintegrated shadow parts show up as snapping, shutting down, fawning, or projecting

  • Why logic and mindset work can’t override dysregulation—and what actually can

Tune in now to understand your nervous system’s role in intimacy and start rewiring toward connection.


🚨 Regulate & Release, my self-paced nervous system course, is open! Inside, you’ll get the exact practices I teach clients to move out of survival mode and into trust and connection. For a limited time, you’ll also receive 30 days of personalized email support. You can start healing today HERE


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Healing at the RootBy DAIN Wellness