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When Peace Feels Threatening: Why Slowing Down & Good Things Make You Anxious
Trauma & Nervous System Healing Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 1/3/26 Trauma & Nervous System Healing Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 1/3/26

When Peace Feels Threatening: Why Slowing Down & Good Things Make You Anxious

If slowing down makes you anxious or good things feel uncomfortable, it’s not self sabotage. It’s your nervous system! Here’s why peace feels threatening after trauma and how to begin feeling safe again.

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High-functioning anxiety doesn’t always show up as constant panic.⁣ ⁣ A lot of the time it looks like competence, productivity, and being the one everyone relies on.⁣ ⁣ And perfectionism quietly fuels to it too! The combo is dangerously: ⁣ ⁣ Yo Happy New Year!!!!⁣ ⁣ After my own reflection, this year I’m going to call in gentleness. ⁣ ⁣ Softness with myself and how I go about my life.⁣ ⁣ More self care time that’s about activity, fun, joy and play rather than improvement, produc Gotta do it -⁣ ⁣ 2026 ins and outs!⁣ ⁣ What are yours? Which resonate?⁣ ⁣ Happy New Year’s Eve! #2026 #2025 #2026insandouts
The trip of a lifetime!⁣!! ⁣ And yes I do have a fiancé, but I don’t show him, fam, and friends on my therapy page 🤣⁣ ⁣ England was magical and I feel deep gratitude and thankfulness. ⁣ ⁣ I appreciate my relationship, my family, my frie Holiday reminders, scripts for boundaries, and ways to meet your needs too during this time! Happy holidays everyone ✨ #holidayboundaries #boundaries #therapistsofig If you’re exhausted, resentful, or quietly overwhelmed -⁣ ⁣ You might not be “bad at boundaries.”⁣ ⁣ You might just be over-functioning in the name of love, safety, connection or belonging.⁣ ⁣ You probably learned doing more was the
How often do you leave a convo and feel you gave more then you received?⁣ ⁣ Or relationships that feel one sided.⁣ ⁣ It this is often for you, here are some signs you’re carrying more than your share of the emotional labor!⁣ ⁣ #therapistsoninst Trusting yourself isn’t lost - it’s just buried under years of survival mode. ⁣ ⁣ Your intuition didn’t disappear or go away it’s waiting for space, safety, and softness to be heard again!⁣ ⁣ #intuition #selftrust #therapistso

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