Greetings and Salutations, Breakups don’t just hurt emotionally, they disrupt your brain’s reward, attachment, and threat systems. That’s why you can know  something is over and still feel pulled to think and hope. This isn’t a lack of self-control. It’s biology and it’s ok to say “This sucks.” Dopamine’s role Romantic relationships are one of the strongest natural activators of dopamine. Over time, your brain learns a simple equation: This person = reward When the relationsh

Regulating your nervous system is key to promoting healing

Greetings and Salutations, Whether it is a big T or a little t, your brain is hardwired to respond to trauma in protective ways. Protective behaviors serve the purpose of protecting our physical, mental, and emotional systems in those moments. But what happens when the moment or event has passed, and we continue to respond to future events in the same way? When we re-experience traumatic events or events that seem similar, our sympathetic nervous systems kick in and triggers