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Brooke Weinstein, Austin, TX (2026)

02/17/2026

Boundary pushback feels awful in your body for a reason. Your nervous system recognizes when someone is trying to manipulate you back into compliance.

And then there's the guilt you feel when you disappoint them!! That's your body remembering that keeping people happy used to keep you safe.

Here's what boundary resistance actually looks like:
✅They call you selfish when you stop over-functioning for them
✅They accuse you of "changing" when you stop people-pleasing
✅They give you the silent treatment until you apologize for having needs
✅They make you responsible for their emotional reaction to your boundary
✅They bring up everything you've ever done wrong to justify why you owe them
✅They tell mutual friends you're being "dramatic" or "difficult"
✅They act wounded and confused like you're attacking them personally

Pay attention to who shows up differently when you start protecting your energy.

The people who actually care about you will adjust. The people who benefited from your burnout will push back.

Your nervous system already knows which one you're dealing with.

Hands up if you're ready to stop people pleasing and start honoring your true self. You effing deserve it.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

02/15/2026

Your brain will believe what you repeatedly tell it. Start telling it a different story.

Worst-case thinking isn't protecting you. It's slowly destroying your nervous system.

Every unanswered text becomes rejection. Every medical symptom becomes catastrophic. Every unknown outcome feels like impending disaster.

You think you're preparing for the worst. What's actually happening is you're keeping your body in a constant state of threat. Rehearsing disaster over and over until your nervous system believes danger is always imminent.

Your brain learned this as a survival strategy. Preparing for the worst felt safer than being caught off guard. So you stopped imagining good outcomes altogether.

Here's what that costs you: your body stays activated. Your capacity shrinks. Hope feels dangerous. And you end up living in survival mode even when nothing bad is actually happening.

Imagining best-case scenarios requires a regulated nervous system. One that feels safe enough to hope. To believe good things are possible. To stop bracing for impact long enough to picture a positive outcome.

Comment NEWSLETTER and I'll pop some support in rewiring your nervous system into your inbox.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

02/15/2026

Resilience culture taught you that pushing through makes you strong.

Your nervous system is telling you something different.

Real resilience means recognizing when your body is reaching its limit and actually doing something about it. Dysregulation means overriding every signal until your system forces you to stop.

Here's what burnout actually looks like when your nervous system has been running on fumes:

You snap at people you love over minor things
Sleep feels impossible even when you're exhausted
Everything feels urgent and nothing feels manageable
You can't remember the last time you felt genuinely rested
Simple tasks take twice as long as they should
You're either numb or on the verge of tears with no in-between
Your body hurts in ways that don't make sense

This is your nervous system waving every red flag it has.

And pushing through one more deadline, one more commitment, one more "I'm fine" is just bringing you closer to the shutdown you're trying to avoid.

Regulation gives you a different option. One where you catch the signals early and support your system before it crashes.

You don’t need to push through.
You need support that meets your biology.

💬 Comment READY and I’ll DM you how we help calm the system so your thoughts don’t have to run the show.

02/14/2026

For me, movement is the key to regulate my nervous system. It has been since I started dancing at age 5.

When I find myself snapping at my kids, being annoyed by the sound of my dryer, I KNOW I need to throw on my shoes go for an effing walk.

Irritability shows up before full dysregulation does.

That sharp tone with your partner. The way your kid's normal kid behavior suddenly feels unbearable. Everything annoying you more than it should.

Your nervous system is sending you data! The activation is building. Your window of tolerance is shrinking. And if you don't intervene now, you'll end up completely flooded later.

For MY specific nervous system, movement is one of the fastest ways to shift my state. It might be for you too. Walking around the block. Pacing your living room. Dancing in your kitchen for 90 seconds. Anything that gets your body moving and gives your nervous system a different input.

You don't need a perfect solution. You just need to know what YOUR specific nervous system needs.

And to stop dysregulation, you need to interrupt the pattern before it escalates. Most people wait until they're already yelling or shutting down to realize they needed regulation hours ago. The work is catching it earlier. Honoring the irritability as information instead of pushing through it.

Your body is always talking to you. Irritability is just one of the ways it's begging you to pay attention.

Did you know that all of our clients take a personalized sensory assessment in order to better learn their specific sensory profile? It's a crucial tool in learning how your nervous system ticks. What works for me may not work for you. Comment I WANT THAT if you're ready for support learning how to recognize your specific nervous system's signals before you hit your limit.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

02/13/2026

Happy Birthday to my Mardi Gras baby!

Words could never express the magnitude of love I feel for Eli.

He is gentle, kind, hard working, lovable, loyal, honest, and above all always happy.

Eli is magic. I don’t know how I got so lucky to be his mom but he’s stuck with me forever.

Happy 9th Birthday Eli! May all your wishes and dreams come true!

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Mom

02/13/2026

Feeling stuck usually means your nervous system has been running the same patterns for so long that nothing feels new and exciting anymore.

Same morning routine. Same stress responses. Same relationships triggering the same reactions.

Your brain needs novelty to grow, but your nervous system defaults to what feels familiar.

Even when familiar feels terrible.

The way out requires understanding YOUR specific wiring. What actually regulates your system versus what just numbs you out. What relationships support your nervous system versus which ones drain it. What kind of work energizes you versus what burns you out.

When you start working WITH your nervous system instead of against it, everything shifts.

Joy comes back! You feel like yourself again. Your relationships improve because you're showing up regulated instead of reactive. Work feels manageable instead of suffocating.

Small changes create big momentum when they're aligned with how your body actually works.
I watch people transform their entire lives once they understand their nervous system. The stuck feeling dissolves. Capacity returns. Life starts feeling worth living again.

If you're ready to stop repeating the same patterns and start building a life that actually works for your nervous system, comment READY. I'd love to support you through this.
Xo, Dr. B 💛

02/13/2026

Your body has been sending you signals for months. Maybe years.

The fatigue you pushed through with more coffee. The irritability you blamed on your kids. The shutdown you convinced yourself would pass if you just got through the week.

And when those signals got loud enough that you couldn't ignore them anymore, you decided something was wrong with you.

Here's what's going on:
Your nervous system has been trying to protect you this entire time.
The whole time!!!!

Overwhelm was your body saying "this pace is unsustainable."
Exhaustion was your system begging for rest.
Shutdown was the emergency brake when you refused to slow down.

The nuts and bolts of is simple. You're dysregulated.

And the only way out is to start honoring what your body has been screaming at you from the beginning.

Regulation gives you the ability to catch these signals early.
Before the crash.
Before the shutdown.
Before you're too depleted to function.

That’s where regulation practice comes in.
When your nervous system feels supported, everything shifts.
Your capacity grows.
Your tools start to work.
You feel more present, because your body feels safe enough to be here.

Comment READY if you're ready to grow -- I'd love to chat about how I can help you.

02/12/2026

Your nervous system isn't the problem. The problem is you've been using someone else's operating manual.

If your baseline is wanting to stay home and your nervous system feels tired just thinking about going out, you have a different type of nervous system than the people who thrive in high-octane environments.

Not a broken one. A different one.

And nobody taught you that.

You've been comparing yourself to people whose systems naturally operate in third and fourth gear. Who get energized by stimulation. Who can handle constant activation without crashing.

Meanwhile, your system has a lower threshold for overwhelm. A shorter runway before you hit dysregulation. A biology that requires more downtime to process what others shake off.

There is nothing wrong with that! What's wrong is beating yourself up for being yourself.

What's wrong is not learning how your nervous system works and learning how to optimize it.

When you don't learn how YOUR nervous system works, when you keep trying to function like someone with a different baseline, you set yourself up for chronic dysregulation. For anxiety. For depression. For a body that stays in shutdown because you never learned how to meet it where it actually lives.

Learning your system means learning how to rev that engine up to third gear when you need to. How to access activation without burning out. How to recognize when you're hitting your limit before you crash past it.

So stop trying to be high-octane. Start learning how to work with the system you actually have.

02/11/2026

High performers spend all day shifting between nervous system states without realizing what they're doing.

Activated for the morning chaos. Regulated enough to focus during work calls. Back to activated for school pickup. Then somehow expecting their body to have capacity left for dinner, homework, bedtime routines, and being a functional human.

Your nervous system has a daily limit. Once you hit it, even basic tasks feel impossible.

Executive function shuts down. Decision fatigue takes over.

Sometimes asking your brain to figure out what's for dinner when it's been running on survival mode since 6am is asking TOO MUCH.

The work is learning to track your regulation throughout the day. Building in micro-moments of downregulation. Pacing yourself instead of white-knuckling until collapse.

And also!! Give yourself permission to opt out when your capacity is gone.

Cereal for dinner counts. Your nervous system needs the break more than your kids need a balanced meal.

Comment READY if you want to learn how to regulate your unique nervous system through the chaos instead of pushing until you crash.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

02/11/2026

Hypervigilance convinces you that if you think hard enough, you can predict and prevent every bad outcome.

So you replay conversations for hours. You plan for scenarios that will never happen. You exhaust yourself running simulations of everything that could go wrong.

Here's the brutal part: all that mental energy keeps you from *actually* moving forward.

Your nervous system won't let you act until it feels guaranteed safety. Which means you stay frozen in planning mode while life keeps happening around you.

The answer to overthinking has never been "just stop thinking about it."
The answer is regulation.

Teaching your body that uncertainty doesn't equal danger. That you can take action without knowing every outcome. That being surprised doesn't always end in pain.

When your nervous system learns to tolerate the discomfort of not knowing, your brain can finally stop spinning.

Ready to get off the hamster wheel of overthinking and being stuck in freeze mode? Comment I WANT THAT and I'll DM you to get to know what's going on in your world. I'd love to help.

Xo, Dr. B
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02/10/2026

This is not just about curly hair!! (well, maybe it's mostly about curly hair)

When I think of the change that I've gone through, how drastically my world has shifted over the past 10 years, I can't help but think about the things I tried to force through in my life, and the things I let flow naturally.

Here's what happens when you stop forcing yourself into a shape that doesn't fit: your nervous system finally gets to exhale.

Alllllll that energy you were spending on control creates internal tension. Your body was tracking the mismatch between who you actually are and who you were performing as.

That's dysregulation.

When you lean into honoring your truest self, your REAL self, you teach your nervous system that you don't have to fight yourself anymore.

You're allowed to take up space as you are.
The things I forced never lasted. The things I let flow naturally reshaped my entire life.

Your body knows when you're living in alignment. And it knows when you're performing. One feels like home. The other feels like holding your breath.

Stop torturing yourself into a version that doesn't fit.

If your ready to find out who you are at your deepest level, and how to live in alignment to that self, comment I WANT THAT and I'll DM you. I want to chat about everything that's going on in your world, and how we can help.

Xo,
Dr. B

02/10/2026

Your mother-in-law's unsolicited advice makes your blood boil. Your partner's shutdown when you try to talk makes you want to scream. That friend who's always playing the victim exhausts you just thinking about them.

You've tried everything. Setting boundaries. Having conversations. Creating distance. And still, just the thought of them gets your nervous system firing.

When someone triggers you that hard, they're activating something unresolved in your own system. The dysregulation you see in them is touching the dysregulation you've been managing, suppressing, or avoiding in yourself.

Maybe your mother-in-law's boundary violations mirror how you struggle to hold your own boundaries. Maybe your partner's emotional shutdown reflects the parts of yourself you've learned to shut down. Maybe that friend's victim mentality echoes the ways you abandon yourself when things get hard.

This doesn't mean their behavior is okay!! You can still have boundaries. You can still choose how much access people have to you.

But when you find yourself obsessing over someone else's patterns, replaying conversations, strategizing how to fix or change them, pay attention. That level of activation is telling you something about your OWN nervous system.

The people who trigger you most are often your greatest teachers. They're showing you exactly where your work is. The healing happens when you stop trying to manage them and start addressing what they're activating in you.

Want to chat about your world and your boundaries? Comment I WANT THAT and I'll Dm you to talk about how we can help.

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