Research shows changes in important areas of the brain, such as the hippocampus and amygdala, can be affected by social anxiety.
We love plans.Plans make us feel safe. In control. Productive.But there are seasons when another strategy will not fix what you are feeling. Another productivity tool will not quiet your mind. Another five step framework will not steady your body.
Sometimes what you need is not a plan.
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It is a person.
Someone who sees you. Someone who listens without interrupting. Someone who reminds you that you are not behind in your own life.
There is something regulating about being with someone who is not trying to push you forward. Just someone who sits beside you while you find your own footing again.
Plans are helpful when you are steady.
Presence is powerful when you are not.
And there is no shame in needing presence.
To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is. The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary.