16/12/2025
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Like so many, I have been sitting with a heavy heart after the Bondi shootings.
When something like this happens, our nervous systems don’t experience it as “news”. They experience it as threat. Even if we were nowhere near Bondi, our bodies register danger, loss, and unpredictability. That tight chest, the tears that come out of nowhere, the urge to check on loved ones, the sudden fear when you’re out in public none of that is weakness. It is your nervous system trying to keep you alive.
Trauma isn’t only created by what happens to us personally. It is also created by what we witness, what we imagine, and what we empathically feel for others. Especially for those with prior trauma, this kind of event can crack open old fears and memories that were never fully resolved.
If you’re feeling unsettled, hypervigilant, flat, tearful, or unable to stop replaying it please know this is a human response to something profoundly inhuman.
Right now, the most regulating thing we can do is slow down. Limit how much footage you consume. Come back into your body. Ground yourself in what is here and now. Hold your people a little closer. Let your system feel safety where it actually exists.
And for those directly impacted the families, witnesses, first responders, and community there are no words that can make sense of this. Only presence, compassion, and time.
Grief will ripple. Fear will ripple. But so will care, connection, and humanity.
Be gentle with yourselves. Your nervous system is doing its best.
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