How to Calm Your Mind by Coming Back to Your Body
If you’re like many of the women I work with, you don’t struggle because you don’t know how to calm your mind. You struggle in the moment when your body takes over.
Your chest tightens. Your jaw clenches. Thoughts accelerate. A conversation shifts, a comment lands wrong, pressure builds, and suddenly you’re no longer responding. You’re reacting.
And in that moment, it doesn’t matter how self-aware, intelligent, or practiced you are.
Your nervous system has already made the call. This is the piece that often gets missed in conversations about “how to calm your mind.” Because the mind isn’t actually where the spiral begins.
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