Hey Gorgeous!
This post is dedicated to highly sensitive souls, including those who’ve taken measures to numb their sensitivity to protect themselves from heartache.
It’s late (for me) on Sunday night. I rarely wait this late to write my newsletter, but I struggled to write this week. My dammed up writing flow felt connected to the reason I cried a little before bed and cried a lot when I woke up this morning—I’ve been overwhelmed with feelings of love and gratitude for the spiritual awareness and openness I’ve been blessed with recently.
Because a lot has been revealed in a short amount of time, my nervous system has been adjusting and regulating to a new normal. Most of Sunday felt like my body and my psyche just needed time to process and integrate my new experiences.
We often “self-sabotage” because our nervous systems need to regulate after great experiences the same way they need to regulate after traumatic experience. What we label self-sabotage is often just our nervous system trying to return to a state that feels normal and expected, which isn’t always what we consciously want or what’s best for us.