There Is No Health Without Mental Health (9/21)

When all you’ve known is trauma, your body and mind get stuck in survival mode.

Your nervous system becomes used to high levels of stress, so you might not always recognize what’s truly dangerous.

This can make it easy to confuse intense emotions with excitement or even attraction.

For example, your fight-or-flight response, which is meant to protect you from harm, can start to feel like „butterflies.“

You might see red flags  in people—things that should make you cautious—but they feel familiar or even exciting because your brain has gotten used to that feeling of chaos. It’s something your subconscious now recognizes as „normal.“
That’s why healing is so important. When you heal, you rewire your mind and body to tell the difference between real danger and healthy excitement. This helps you stop confusing toxic patterns for love or excitement and instead recognize what real safety and peace feel like.