Two Nervous Systems Protecting Old Wounds – The Deeper Thinking Podcast

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A meditation on rupture, habit, and the unseen choreography between two people trying not to break the same way again.

What looks like conflict is often just protection—two nervous systems trying to avoid something they’ve felt before. In this episode, we explore what happens when patterns repeat, when silence holds more weight than speech, and when staying becomes its own kind of risk. With insights drawn from Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, Luce Irigaray, and Emmanuel Levinas, this essay reflects on embodied response, inherited roles, and the ethics of emotional presence.

This episode doesn’t offer instruction. It lingers with the friction between bodies, beliefs, and expectations. Through nine recursive sections, we stay close to the gestures that interrupt old rhythms: a sentence stopped midway, a breath held differently, a story no longer told the same way. What emerges is not certainty, but continuity. A kind of attention that makes returning possible.

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Not every wound needs to be healed. Some just need someone to stay with them long enough to change shape.

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