26 - 5 Things You Shouldn't Do If Your Nervous System Is Sensitized

The Real Work with Maggie Sterling · Feb 11, 2026 · 25m

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If your nervous system is sensitized, the things you instinctively want to do are probably making it worse.In this video, I'm sharing 5 things I would stop doing immediately if I were in the thick of sensitization — and I know because I did all of them for years. This is stabilization work. The goal isn't optimization — it's to stop making things worse so your system can do what it already knows how to do.