14/11/2025
Are you are person who just canât sit still, or, do you notice others who just canât switch off, even for a moment? The need to be planning, always having something on, something to do, somewhere to be?
What if your âbusynessâ isnât just ambition, but your nervous system over the years has been wired to crave this chaos? What if Itâs all youâve ever really known, and now something has made you more aware of this, even this post, and maybe this âchaosâ is showing up in other areas of your life and quite possibly impacting your health. The truth is your body really does keep the score! Eventually the chaos will catch up.
Maybe you grew up surrounded by chaos, always on alert, or perhaps you were rewarded with love and attention only when you achieved at school, sports, when you brought home all the certificates, the wins. Were you celebrated then , recognised, heard, and seen for what you achieved, and not simply for who you were? Over time, years, decades, this can turn into that constant drive to do more and achieve more, always chasing the next accomplishment for a sense of worth and belonging.
I have seen the other side of âbusynessâ with my clients who openly wore this like a badge of honour, yet their nervous systems were stuck on high alert. However, that constant busyness often masks old stories they carried. Wounds held in their bodies. When it shows up in your thoughts, itâs been unconsciously suppressed in your body for years. I know this was very much the case for myself for decades.
If you grew up in unpredictable environments, like myself, your nervous system might crave chaos because that feels normal to you right? it may never have felt safe. You may not even know what that feels like today in your mind and body.
The stillness you crave can feel unsafe when youâre wired for, right, âwhatâs next?â Plan, plan, plan.
In a world thatâs evolving faster than ever right now itâs so easy to lose touch with our soul, our humanness, our connection to self, our intuition, our bodies.
So next time you feel yourself rushing or craving the chaos, just please pause. Notice how your body feels in that moment.
When we learn to understand ourselves, how we react or have reacted in times of chaos and how we respond, we begin to reclaim that lost connection.
Clarity and calm really are possible. It begins with awareness. â¤ď¸