Something that isn't talked about enough:

When you begin to heal from trauma, your body slowly exits survival mode. And what often comes next isn't a burst of energy or motivation - it's deep rest. Craving solitude. Quiet. Time alone with yourself.

This can feel incredibly uncomfortable if you've spent most of your life in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. You might label it as "lazy" because of internalized beliefs and societal conditioning around productivity and worth.

But this rest?

This sacred pause?

It's not regression - it's recalibration.

It's your nervous system finally laying down its armor. It's the beginning of wiring new neural pathways that say: I am safe. I can be with myself. I can just be.

Let yourself honor the stillness.

This is where true healing takes root - where new patterns, beliefs, and ways of being begin to form.

-Michelle Doublet, LCSW, E-RYT, YACEP, CCTP-II

Certified Somatic Parts Work and Trauma Resolution Energy Therapy Practitioner