The 4 R’s of Nervous System Recovery

First and foremost, you have a nervous system.

It is weary, but it, my friends, is not broken.

It has been keeping you alive.

It is keeping you safe.

It is allowing you to accomplish all of the moving parts that you are navigating this particular season.

If anything, the nervous system is maybe one of the only parts of your biology that are looking out for you.

It is making sure that you are okay.

It's sending you some pretty important information to let you know that perhaps we need a wee bit of a rest.

We need a little bit of restoration.

Maybe we need to be on alert, whatever it might be.

Our nervous system is constantly doing its best to protect us.

So first and foremost, it is not broken.

You don't need to reset it.

You don't need to ask it to do more.

If anything, right now, what these weary nervous systems need is just this amazing amount of gratitude, curiosity, and also assurance where we're able to say like, at ease, soldier, you've done the good work.

and be able to finish some of these stress cycles.

We have a lot of open loops and our nervous system is doing its best to juggle all of these moving parts.

And it's not even that we have a lot on our plate.

It's like we have platters while also like juggling chainsaws, right? Like we have a lot of things going on.

You're not alone and life is hard and it's not because you're doing it wrong.