What if your body isn't failing you... it's just waiting to feel safe?

I want to introduce you to someone.

In the framework I've built my work around — the 5 States of Rest — the first state is the one I see most. I call them the Rooted One. This isn't a personality type.

It's a state the body moves into when it's been holding too much for too long. And know this... you might sense yourself in all five states, but most people have one that's most familiar.

(I've been in a place where safety felt impossible to believe. I know what it's like to feel truly betrayed by your own body. And I also know what it feels like to come home to it again.)

Let me introduce you to the Rooted One.

They don't feel lazy. They feel disconnected from themselves. Sleep doesn't fully restore them. They're exhausted but wired. They keep trying to think their way out of something that actually lives in the body.

Just sit with that for a moment.

Your body has been working so hard to protect you. That's not failure, but your body asking to come home.

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