24/09/2026
For a long time I thought I was just a negative person.
Everything felt heavy. Everything felt like a threat. Everything felt like it was about to go wrong.
I’d walk down the street and if I saw someone who looked drug affected, my whole body would go into fight or flight.
I’d see tree shadows and think someone was about to jump out at me sometimes.
I’d meet someone genuinely kind and spend the entire time waiting for their hidden agenda to show itself.
Because nobody was just nice. There was always a catch.
I’d enter relationships and immediately start performing, people pleasing, being someone I thought was safe enough to love …because I was just waiting for them to figure out who I actually was and leave.
When people asked how I was I said fine.
I wasn’t fine.
I was exhausted and I knew I was draining to be around, which made everything worse.
I genuinely believed this was just who I was.
It wasn’t.
What was actually happening was hypervigilance.
After years of personal trauma and nearly 8 years as a police detective, my nervous system had completely reset its baseline.
It was no longer operating from safety, it was operating from permanent threat.
Scanning constantly, waiting for the next thing to go wrong, reading danger into situations that were safe, and protecting me from people who didn’t actually mean me harm.
Because that’s what a traumatised nervous system does.
It doesn’t know the threat is gone.
Keep you safe. At any cost.
Even when that cost is your relationships.
Your joy.
Your ability to trust.
Your ability to believe something good could actually stay.
If you’ve spent your life being told you’re too negative, too anxious, and you are always expecting the worst…
I want you to hear this:
You are not a negative person.
You are not broken.
You are not too much.
Your nervous system is just still waiting for the next thing to go wrong.
And it can change.
That’s the work I do and it’s the work that changed everything for me.
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