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How I’m Learning to Live in the ‘Middle Place’ for My Mental and Physical Health

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I have two modes of operation. Either I run at 125% or total collapse. Both ways of existing have their place, and I’m rather skilled at each.

Yet in truth this is not very healthy, and so I’m trying to figure out something new. I’m learning to live in the middle place. I function at these two opposites for variety of reasons, but in my opinion the biggest contenders are the trauma I experienced in my past and depression.

Through decades of therapy and my own internal work, I’ve discovered that my nervous system is regularly running the show. As a person with complex post-traumatic stress syndrome (CPTSD), my nervous system tends to go about doing things in a way that worked for past survival.

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