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These aren’t tools I just recommend - they’re ones I use in session, in my support groups with women, and honestly on myself before a hard conversation or when my own nervous system is running the show.⁣ ⁣ The extended exhale before I re
Taking up space feels dangerous when your nervous system was taught that shrinking kept you safe.⁣ ⁣ And not even because of a confidence problem. It really is a nervous system and adaptive attachment pattern that made complete sense when you learned
People-pleasing guilt doesn’t just sound like⁣ “I feel guilty.”⁣ ⁣ Sometimes it sounds like:⁣ “What if they’re mad at me?”⁣ “I should’ve just said yes.”⁣ “Now I need to fix this.”⁣

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