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Your Nervous System Was Built For Lions | S5 EP134
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Your heart races before a difficult talk, you overthink a text, you walk into a crowd and your whole body scans for threats and then you shame yourself for being “ridiculous.” That combo is exactly what we’re unpacking: the shame of small fears, and why it can quietly run your relationships, your confidence, and your daily peace.
We dig into the stress state many of us live in, from fight or flight to freeze and fawn, and how hypervigilance can make normal public life feel tense even when you’re objectively safe. I talk through the popular “lizard brain” idea as a practical…
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