The nervous system's ability to regulate itself is fundamental to our overall well-being and represents our body's most essential survival mechanism. A regulated nervous system can fluidly move between states of activation and calm, responding appropriately to real threats and then returning to a balanced baseline once safety is restored. However, when we experience overwhelming events, our natural survival responses—fight, flight, or freeze—can become incomplete or "stuck" in the nervous system, creating a dysregulated state. In this condition, the body remains trapped in survival modes of fight, flight, and freeze even when no actual danger is present, leading to chronic symptoms like hypervigilance, anxiety, depression, fatigue, emotional numbness, burnout, or shutdown. 

           The key insight is that trauma is not what happens to us, but rather the incomplete biological responses that remain trapped in our nervous system afterward. When these survival energies become fixed in specific patterns of neuromuscular readiness, the person stays in a state of chronic arousal and dysfunction. Through gentle somatic approaches that help complete these thwarted survival responses, we can restore the nervous system's natural capacity for self-regulation, releasing trapped survival energy and returning to a state of resilience, presence, and life vitality where the body remembers its innate wisdom to heal.