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

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

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…