We need to make better decisions.

Professionally, I'm trained as an expert on nervous system regulation. It's a hot topic right now, which is genuinely cool. All of a sudden the nervus Vagus is common knowledge, the way your lymphatic system works and its role in immunity and regulation is shared on TikTok and Insta.

Who would have guessed thát when I studied and worked these topics for all those years? I would have loved a sneakpeak back then!

With the eagerness to learn the mechanics and the principles comes a lot of awareness. And we can do better. We need to.

The alternative is pretty shitty, because staying dysregulated for long stretches has dangerous effects. On our health. On what we pass on to our children (literally!). On society.

But here's what I found out: besides all the progress we can make on healthy lifestyles, breathwork, safe attachment, food, sleep, holistic treatment, yoga, exercise, being outside in nature: if you're still functioning inside unhealthy systems, if you're not expressing your deepest genius, your creativity, your life's calling, if you keep repeating all the reasons why things won't work out for you, if you keep digging around in your past, your trauma, your stories, none of it sticks.

Not the breathwork, not the osteopathy, not the systemic work, not the yoga. It is just damage control.

It's time to step into your true role. Why are you even here, on this floating rock in space?

To commute every day? To make yourself smaller to be accepted? To follow a bunch of rules you never actually agreed to? To worry about made-up money, in made-up jobs, on made-up time? To obey a**hole employers and leaders?

Yes, I'm putting it a bit edgy. I know this system isn't something you jump out of in one go. But the first steps are easy to take. First, you have to see it for yourself. Feel it. And the plotting toward what would actually work for YOU can start today.

That's MY calling. I want to push over the first domino with as many people as I can reach. Not only for them individually, although we could all use a bit more fire, hope, energy, and fun, but for humanity as a whole. Most of all: for our children. For the future of humanity.

We get to decide, over and over, what we'd love to see happening. I'm pretty clear on that. We can do a lot better than we're doing now, and the way things are heading in society isn't my way.

Let the plotting begin.

Love, Annemarijn

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