Combative Calm

Your Nervous System Wasn’t Built for This (Neuroscience & Somatic Movement)


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If you’ve been feeling anxious, angry, frozen, or completely overwhelmed lately, this episode explains why.

We’re living in a moment where violence, injustice, and fear are streamed into our nervous systems all day long. Our brains evolved to respond to immediate, local danger, not to nonstop global crises delivered via our phones. 
So when you feel activated, dysregulated, or shut down, that’s not a personal failure. It’s a nervous system doing its job under impossible conditions.

In this episode, I break down what’s actually happening in your brain and body when you’re exposed to constant threat
We talk about the amygdala, neuroception, the prefrontal cortex going offline, and why fight, flight, and freeze are showing up everywhere right now.

Then we move into practical somatic tools you can use in real time, whether you’re feeling anxious and wired, full of rage that needs somewhere to go, or so overwhelmed you’ve gone numb.

This isn’t about politics.
It’s about humanity.
And it’s about giving your nervous system a way to stay present in a world that feels unsafe.

Listen when you need to understand what your body is responding to, and learn how to work with it instead of fighting it.

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Combative CalmBy Sarai Speer

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