10/16/2026
Life events or experiences that felt like too much or people telling us that our emotions are too much will cause the nervous system to go into defense and protection.
As a result, anytime we are meant to experience and express somatic or emotional awareness, the defensive nervous system remembers the past and avoids and suppresses the emotion or body sensation.
The need to control, use logic and constant thinking becomes the dominant pattern in the attempt to avoid feeling.