You Don't Need to Be Calm to Be Healing (and Other Nervous System Truths)

What if your anxiety, shutdown, or overwhelm aren’t signs of failure—but signs your body is finally healing?

In this episode of Reclaim You, Sarah breaks down one of the most misunderstood ideas in trauma recovery: that nervous system regulation = being calm. (Spoiler: it doesn’t.)

You’ll learn:

• Why calm isn’t always regulation—and why stillness can be a shutdown in disguise
• What dysregulation actually means in a trauma-informed framework
• How real healing builds nervous system flexibility, not perfection
• The truth about survival states, and how your body completes what it never got to finish

If you’ve been doing the work and still feel overwhelmed, this conversation will reframe how you see your nervous system—and help you stop judging what’s actually progress.

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[Regulation Isn’t the Goal Worksheet] https://www.subscribepage.com/nervous-system-regulation

[Window of Tolerance Worksheet]
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