CogniTurn

25/11/2025

When the nervous system has lived in survival, it will mistake intensity for intimacy.

Healing isn’t about avoiding relationships — it’s about regulating the one you have with yourself.

When you feel safe inside your body, you stop chasing urgency...
and start choosing compatibility.

And that quiet shift — is where the cycle ends.

25/11/2025

When the nervous system has lived in survival, it will mistake intensity for intimacy.

Healing isn’t about avoiding relationships —
it’s about regulating the one you have with yourself.

When you feel safe inside your body, you stop chasing urgency…
and start choosing compatibility.

And that quiet shift —
is where the cycle ends.

05/11/2025

Your body isn’t resisting healing — it’s protecting the version of you that once needed those defences.

Healing doesn’t mean silencing those instincts.
It means letting them know they don’t have to work so hard anymore.

You’re not starting over —
you’re just teaching safety to a body that once had to survive everything.

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22/09/2023

Have you been in therapy for a while and still having bad days?

Let this be a reminder that recovery is not an upward graph. There’s a lot of ups and downs.
Therapy is an excruciating process. Sadly, there’s no shortcut to recovery.

Take a deep breath, be kind to yourself, and keep at it.