really loved the depth and personal experience you go into here. i love how you talk about meeting the CORE emotions and building from there. i think, too, if a human's basic needs aren't met, it's so easy to come from those unhinged spaces and to dwell there persistently which is so taxing on the nervous system. when i studied massage, the teachers talked about reaching the parasympathetic nervous system which calms, restores and relaxes the body. our responses are different once we spend regular time there. it's hard to remember when we're regularly in fight or flight more (speaking to myself here), but we can sculpt a life around creating that safe core. <3