Hey friends—

This week, I’m talking about something I know so many of us are feeling right now, even if we can’t quite name it.

The world is loud. Politically. Medically. Emotionally.

Medicaid is being gutted. Healthcare tech is racing to build solutions that don’t always include us. The current administration is passing executive orders that strip care and access from the most vulnerable. And in the middle of all that, I’m going through neuropsych testing in my 40s—trying to understand my brain while the system around me keeps shifting.

If your nervous system has been feeling:

* like you’re on high alert all the time,

* like your brain is buffering while the world keeps refreshing,

* like even the smallest things feel hard right now—

This episode is for you.

We talk about:

* The contradiction of Medicaid cuts alongside “equity” data projects

* The reality of going through neuropsych evaluation as an adult

* How policy instability lands in our bodies, not just our inboxes

* What it means to regulate in a world that keeps destabilizing

And most importantly:

Why your response to all of it is not a sign of weakness—it’s your nervous system telling the truth.

Take what you need. Leave the rest. And if it helps, forward it to someone else whose nervous system might need to hear:

You’re not broken. You’re responding to a world that rarely makes room for the sensitive, the perceptive, the neurodivergent. And that matters.

—Melody

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