Brooke Weinstein

Brooke Weinstein ✨ Widow | Mom of 2 👦 | OTD, ORT-L
🧠 TRAIN your nervous system
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12/19/2025

Sometimes you need someone who just GETS it. Who gets you. Sure a partner, but also, a friend, a family member, a coworker. Whoever just gets you.

Not someone who asks why you're hiding under a weighted blanket in the middle of the day. Not someone who tells you to just push through. Someone who sees you start to shut down and wraps you up without making you explain yourself.

Sensory overload doesn't always look like a meltdown. Sometimes it looks like needing to be completely compressed, in the dark, not talking, while your system reboots.

The people who understand this, the ones who don't make you justify your nervous system's needs...THOSE are your people.

Regulation isn't always pretty. Sometimes it's lying on the floor wrapped like a burrito while someone else handles dinner. And when you're building a life that actually works for your body, you need people around you who understand that.

This is what we do inside Thrive. We normalize the things your nervous system needs instead of pathologizing them. We build community around what actually helps, not what looks good on Instagram.

Comment THRIVE if you're ready to stop explaining yourself and start being understood.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

12/18/2025

The nervous system space is flooded with people trying to monetize a trend they don't fully understand. Be careful who you trust with your body's most critical system.

If someone's teaching nervous system regulation but isn't explaining YOUR specific brain and YOUR specific nervous system, it might be snake oil.

Lived experience matters. But when someone is teaching you how the brain and nervous system work, they need actual knowledge and professional training, not just their own story and a certification from a weekend course.

This work requires requires someone who has studied the science for years, not just the buzzwords. It requires tracking, reflection, and integration, not random tips they saw on ChatGPT or Wikipedia.

The nervous system space is flooded with people trying to monetize a trend they don't fully understand. Be careful who you trust with your body's most critical system.

Your nervous system is WILDLY individual. How you process stress, how you respond to threat, what regulation actually looks like for you: none of that is one-size-fits-all.

For me and my team, we track your nervous system responses in real time. Not guessing. Not generalizing. Actually tracking what's happening in your body, day by day, so we can build tools that work for you specifically.

You deserve better than surface-level advice from someone who took a course last month and started calling themselves an expert.

Your brain and your nervous system are too important for that.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

When your nervous system is wired for doing, rest doesn’t feel like a break.It feels like you’re falling behind.It feels...
12/18/2025

When your nervous system is wired for doing, rest doesn’t feel like a break.
It feels like you’re falling behind.
It feels like you’re doing something wrong.

And if perfectionism is your old safety blanket, then guilt becomes the default every time you try to slow down.

Guess what?!
Rest is not the opposite of progress.
It’s the REQUIREMENT for progress.

With consistent regulation of your nervous system, you can actually feel safe when you've got downtime.

AND -- here's the kicker. You'll be much more open to creativity, growth, and the kind of success fight-or-flight will NEVER give you.

You can break the cycle of guilt and shame. You can enjoy rest. Not quite sure where to start? Comment READY and I'll DM you to chat about what's going on in your wold, and how me can help.

I got you.
Xoxo, Dr. B💛

12/17/2025

Your body doesn't release what it's carrying until it knows you can handle it. Until it trusts that you're not in immediate danger anymore. Until it registers safety.

That emotional flood is your nervous system exhaling after holding its breath for too long.
You've been strong for so long that your body forgot it was allowed to feel. Now it's reminding you (gently, messily, all at once) that you don't have to hold everything together all the time.

You might feel like you're always in trouble. Like you're waiting for the other shoe to drop. Like someone's about to call you out, criticize you, or tell you that you messed up.

That feeling lives in your nervous system.

Ingrained guilt and shame keep your body on high alert, constantly scanning for proof that you did something wrong.

But you DIDN'T. However, your nervous system learned early on that staying vigilant = staying safe. S

o it holds onto guilt, even when there's nothing to feel guilty about. It replays shame, even when you've done nothing to be ashamed of.

The guilt that has no logical source. The shame that doesn't match the situation. The tension from always waiting to be in trouble.

When your nervous system finally registers safety (through regulation, through support, through moments where you actually let your guard down) it starts letting go.

You're safe. You're not in trouble. And your body is learning to believe it.

Comment READY if you're tired of carrying guilt and shame that don't belong to you and you want support releasing them.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

12/16/2025

The way you laugh without holding back says everything about the people you're with.
When your nervous system feels safe, you relax. You let your guard down. You stop performing and start being.

Support matters more than willpower. More than resilience. More than trying harder.

You can't regulate alone. Your nervous system needs co-regulation: people who get it, who won't judge you, who create space for you to just exist without explanation.

Community means being around like-minded people who understand what you're going through.

Professional support means having someone guide you through the work with tools that actually address your nervous system, not just your mindset.

Random tips and tricks don't work. Isolated effort doesn't work. Healing happens in connection. With the right people, the right support, and AND right tools.

If you're tired of white-knuckling your way through life alone, this is your reminder that you don't have to.
Comment READY and let's chat about what's going on in your life and how you can get the kind of support that actually helps you regulate.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

12/15/2025

Blending families is HARD. You're managing kids with different needs, trying to show up equally for all of them, and navigating two parents who operate completely differently. When your nervous system is dysregulated, all of that feels impossible.

My special guest Michael Braunstein is back on the pod this week talking about how regulating his nervous system and training his brain brought his blended family closer than he could imagine (they even had FUN on a family vacation!).

Blended families magnify nervous system dysregulation. You're trying to create one cohesive unit out of separate histories, different parenting styles, kids who didn't ask for this setup. Your nervous system is constantly scanning: am I favoring my own kids? Are the step kids feeling left out? Is my partner seeing me as the problem?

When you're regulated, you have the capacity to hold all of it without defaulting to control, shutdown, or resentment.

That's what regulation does. Your family stops running on survival mode and starts operating from connection.

Comment PODCAST and I'll send you a link to listen to the full episode with Michael on Thrive Like a Parent.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

12/14/2025

This is what people say when they don't understand the cost of surviving.
It sounds like a compliment, right?? Like strength. Like you should be proud.

But resilience often means you had to become someone who could handle things no one should have to handle. It means your nervous system adapted to chaos, to stress and emotional overload, and now it doesn't know how to turn off.

You kept going when you should have been able to rest. You stayed strong when you should have been allowed to fall apart. You pushed through when your body was screaming for you to stop.

And now you're BURNT OUT. Exhausted. Operating on fumes. But everyone still calls you resilient like it's something to celebrate.

Resilience isn't the goal. Regulation is.

A regulated nervous system means you don't have to be resilient all the time. You don't have to survive every single day. You can rest. You can feel safe. You can stop carrying the weight of everything alone.

You weren't built to operate in survival mode forever. Your body is tired. And it's allowed to be.

Healing means teaching your nervous system that you don't have to be resilient anymore. That you're safe enough to stop fighting.

Comment READY if you're exhausted from being the strong one and you're ready for support that actually helps you regulate instead of just survive.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

12/14/2025

Sunday scaries who?

12/13/2025

TRUST ME we ate everything we took! Not a scrap was wasted.

12/12/2025

Just like I track nervous system data, as a content creator I also track my content's data.

And the pattern over the past year is striking.

Bye-bye long form, hello short form and text-based posts. And I know why!

Because of the increased amount of data we take in every day, your brain doesn't want to watch anymore. You want to scan, assess, and move on in under three seconds.

Your brain has been rewiring itself to operate at increasing speed since social media became the primary way you consume information. And that speed is dysregulation in action.

When your nervous system gets trained to process everything faster, it starts treating everything like it's urgent. The email. The text. The decision about dinner. Your body can't tell the difference between actual emergencies and regular life anymore.

You are living in a state of chronic over-functioning without even realizing it. You think this is normal. You think everyone feels like this. You think if you just manage your time better or get more organized, the spinning will stop.

The problem isn't your schedule. The problem is your nervous system has been conditioned to operate in overdrive, and it doesn't know how to slow down anymore.

I spent years in that place: treading water, screaming for help, convinced this was just what life felt like. Exhausting. Relentless. Miserable

Regulation changed everything. It taught my body that not everything is an emergency. That rest is possible. That I don't have to live on a hamster wheel just because the world is spinning faster.

You don't have to stay stuck in the chaos. Your nervous system can learn to slow down.

Send this to someone who needs it. Especially if you actually made it to the end, because most people can't anymore.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

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