
Stop Waiting Until You're Losing Your Shit to Work on Your Nervous System
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Your nervous system is either building capacity right now or destroying it.
There is no neutral. And if you have been waiting until you hit the wall to start paying attention to it, this episode is going to change how you think about regulation forever.
We get into vagal tone, what it is, why it is the single biggest factor in how much capacity you actually have, and why you can only build it when things are calm. Meet Vega, your vagus nerve, the hoodie-wearing CEO of your entire nervous system, and finally understand what she needs from you on a regular Tuesday when nothing is on fire.
You will walk away understanding why your window of tolerance widens or shrinks based on what you do daily, why reactive regulation never builds real capacity, and what consistent, small inputs actually do to your nervous system over time.
This is the episode that makes everything else make sense.
Capacity Club opens April 6th. First live call April 15th. https://saraispeer.com/capacity-club
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