Relationships are not just emotional experiences.
They are nervous system exchanges.

Every interaction shapes your baseline, through tone, pace, facial expression, expectation, and energy. Before you consciously decide how you feel about someone, your nervous system has already assessed whether it needs to brace, perform, shrink, or soften.

In this episode, Hannah explores boundaries as regulation, not rejection and reframes energy exchange as biology, not mysticism.

This is a grounded, unflinching conversation about relational capacity, co-regulation, emotional labour, guilt, and rebuilding self-trust.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why relationships are nervous system exchanges

• The biological reality of co-regulation and co-dysregulation

• Why boundaries are regulators, not walls

• Guilt as a pattern change response

• Emotional labour and “energy leaks”

• Capacity awareness vs. dramatic cut-offs

• Repair as the foundation of safe connection

• Rebuilding self-trust through repetition

Sacred living cannot exist inside chronic relational dysregulation.
You are allowed to protect your capacity, steadily, not aggressively.

✨ Season 4 Format Reminder

Each Friday episode is followed by a spoken-word nervous system imprint released on Saturday. These imprints are designed to be listened to repeatedly throughout the week to allow integration through familiarity and repetition.

🎧 Next step:

After listening to this episode, return tomorrow for Episode 4.1 – The Boundaries Imprint, and let the work settle.

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