Photo by Oliva Pino, used with permission (IG: @pinoheart)

Last night I sat at my dining room table, facilitating a mentoring session for a group of bodyworkers. The first question to arise had to do with feeling afraid and overwhelmed in the face of . . . everything. I listened as one of the people poured out her fear, talking faster and faster as she got more and more anxious. After a time, she ran out of words and looked into the camera, eyes full of tears.

“What are you doing to regulate your nervous system?” I asked, “Specifically, what…