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Lab Notes: Your Nervous System Isn’t Broken — It’s Brilliant

Why TikTok is a flaming disaster on this topic, and why "regulation" ≠ calm.

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Kate Speer
Sep 26, 2025
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Last week, I left you as I was “blissing out” in the frigid Connecticut River while I experienced living in my body for the first time since I was a young girl.

The power of that moment — its relief and safety — doesn’t make sense when you think about how an extra ten minutes there could have triggered deadly hypothermia, but that is my entire point in s…

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