When our nervous system doesn't align with the emotional work we've done to heal and grow
This is Part 2 to last week's article Interrupting the Pattern.
I’ve been struggling increasingly with my cognitive function so please excuse anything that doesn’t quite flow or isn’t as clearly communicated.
Just as our neurological connections establish patterns, so does our nervous system. When we’ve done a lot of emotional work in therapy to heal and grow, it can feel really discouraging and frustrating when our nervous system does not align with that work. The way this has shown up for me is when I know something in my head, I’ve adjusted behavior, I’ve worked through it in therapy and have experienced healing, but my body still is triggered. All the ways my nervous system gets triggered into sympathetic reactions despite all the growing and healing I’ve done is a misalignment between my emotional self and my physiological self.
Emotional and psychological wounds affect us on a physiological level. I couldn’t figure out how to translate the psychological healing I’d experienced to…