Grief is that horrible psychological and physiological experience when your mind and body have to update reality after a meaningful loss. It's not just sadness, it's so much more. One dimension to it, is that it has a huge element of learning.. painful learning that something important is gone… and you have to reorganize your world around that. "One of the hardest parts of loss isn’t just missing the person, but missing the version of you that existed when they were here. The life you had....

Fear is your brain’s “danger detector”. Think of it as your inner alarm system: it’s loud, persistent, and sometimes goes off when there’s literally nothing there. However, its main job is to keep you alive. Fear = Something is bad + I might not be able to handle it Fear is not an enemy, it's your friend. It helps you spot danger quickly (so you don’t get eaten by a bear - or metaphorical bears like traffic or deadlines). It also makes your body ready to fight, run, or freeze like a statue....

If your shoulders sometimes feel like they’re trying to become earrings and your brain insists on replaying awkward moments from 2007 at 2am, you’re not alone. Our nervous system is constantly working behind the scenes, trying to keep us safe, sometimes a little too enthusiastically. The good news is that our bodies also come with built-in ways to reset, and one of the most surprisingly effective tools doesn’t involve overthinking… it involves moving! Our nervous system plays a huge role in...