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Brooke Weinstein, Austin, TX (2025)

12/12/2025

Just like I track nervous system data, as a content creator I also track my content's data.

And the pattern over the past year is striking.

Bye-bye long form, hello short form and text-based posts. And I know why!

Because of the increased amount of data we take in every day, your brain doesn't want to watch anymore. You want to scan, assess, and move on in under three seconds.

Your brain has been rewiring itself to operate at increasing speed since social media became the primary way you consume information. And that speed is dysregulation in action.

When your nervous system gets trained to process everything faster, it starts treating everything like it's urgent. The email. The text. The decision about dinner. Your body can't tell the difference between actual emergencies and regular life anymore.

You are living in a state of chronic over-functioning without even realizing it. You think this is normal. You think everyone feels like this. You think if you just manage your time better or get more organized, the spinning will stop.

The problem isn't your schedule. The problem is your nervous system has been conditioned to operate in overdrive, and it doesn't know how to slow down anymore.

I spent years in that place: treading water, screaming for help, convinced this was just what life felt like. Exhausting. Relentless. Miserable

Regulation changed everything. It taught my body that not everything is an emergency. That rest is possible. That I don't have to live on a hamster wheel just because the world is spinning faster.

You don't have to stay stuck in the chaos. Your nervous system can learn to slow down.

Send this to someone who needs it. Especially if you actually made it to the end, because most people can't anymore.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

12/12/2025

You can tell yourself to calm down all day long. Your body won't listen.

Your nervous system scans your environment, your breath, your heart rate, your muscle tension and makes decisions based on what it senses, not what you think.

Safe? You can relax.
Unsafe? Everything tightens.

Affirmations and mindset work only go so far when your body is screaming that something's wrong.

Real regulation happens when you give your nervous system the cues it actually responds to.
Your body needs evidence, not explanations.

I spent years trying to think my way into feeling better. I told myself I was fine. I pushed through. I white-knuckled my way through overwhelm while my body kept the score.

And then I learned how nervous systems actually work. Everything changed.

Regulation gave me my life back. Not because I mastered my thoughts, but because I finally started listening to my body.

Comment READY if you're tired of trying to think your way into feeling better and want nervous system tools that actually work.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

12/11/2025

If this popped up in your feed, I already know that you give a damn.

You're paying attention to your nervous system. You're learning how your body works. You're showing up for yourself in ways most people never will.

And yet you still beat yourself up for not being enough.

You replay the moment you lost your patience. You question whether you're doing it right. You wonder if you're failing because you're tired, overwhelmed, or just trying to survive the week.

The fact that you're even aware of this stuff puts you miles ahead. Most people walk through life completely disconnected from their bodies, reacting from survival mode without ever questioning why.

You're different. You're doing the work. You're learning, adjusting, trying to break patterns that took years to build.
Strength shows up as trying, not perfection.

You don't need to regulate flawlessly every single day. You need to give yourself credit for showing up, for trying, for caring enough to want better for yourself and the people you love.

You're allowed to be a work in progress. You're allowed to have hard days. You're allowed to be human while you're learning to heal.

Cut yourself some slack. You're doing better than you think.

And you're kind of a badass for even trying.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

Share this with your friends who are traveling this world with you!!!

12/10/2025

Most couples don't talk about capacity, or how levels of capacity change all the time.

You assume your partner should be able to show up the same way every day. They assume the same about you. And when neither of you can, resentment builds.

Your nervous system doesn't operate at a fixed level. Some days you wake up at 80%, some days you're starting at 30% before you even get out of bed. Your partner's the same. And those levels rarely sync up.

When one of you is high and the other is low, you can compensate. Someone picks up the slack. Someone holds space. It works.

The real damage happens when you're both running on empty at the same time. That's when the smallest thing becomes a fight. The tone in a text. The dishes in the sink. The way they breathed too loud.

Two dysregulated people can't co-regulate. They just feed off each other's activation until someone explodes or shuts down.

This is why so many couples feel like they're fighting over nothing. You're not fighting about the dishes. You're fighting because neither of you has the nervous system capacity to stay calm, and you're both looking for the other person to regulate you when you can't regulate yourself.

Stop expecting both of you to be at 100% at the same time. That's not how bodies work. Start paying attention to where you're both actually at, and adjust accordingly.

Some days you carry more. Some days they do. That's the deal.

Comment TELL ME MORE if you'd like to chat about how your nervous system is showing up in your relationship. I'd love to see if we can help you grow the bonds in your life 💛

Xo, Dr. B

12/09/2025

Send this to your husband!!!! Or your boyfriend. Your partner. our dad. Your brother. ANY MAN in your life.

Nervous system regulation WILL CHANGE how they show up in their marriage. How they show up at work. How they show up for their kids.

Michael Braunstein came to me as a former collegiate athlete, business owner, and dad of four in a blended family. From the outside, everything looked great. Inside, he was burned out. Snapping at his kids. Drowning in pressure. Wondering how some dads get to the point where they just walk away.

That breaking point brought him and his wife to nervous system work. And everything changed.

In this episode, Michael talks about what it was like before regulation: stuck in constant "fix it" mode, overwhelmed, caught in a roller coaster inside his marriage. He breaks down how understanding his gas-pedal brain, recognizing his limits, and shifting from fixing to supporting opened a completely new path.

This is what happens when men actually do the work. When they stop white-knuckling their way through life and start regulating their nervous system.

If you've got a man in your life who loves his family but feels like he can't keep living like this, send him this episode.

Comment PODCAST and I'll send you the link.
Xo, Dr. B 💛

12/08/2025

Crazy would be easier to fix! Short fuse? The holidays can make it even shorter becuase of sensory overload.

Bright lights, crowded spaces, constant noise, scratchy sweaters. ALL OF IT will put your nervous system into overdrive.

Your window of tolerance shrinks when your sensory system is overloaded. The best fix is to understand YOUR specific sensory system so you can protect your peace by anticipating and balancing out those sensory-heavy situations.

Pay attention to what's pushing you over the edge this season, and what makes you feel good after. Sound off in the comments -- I want to know what soothes your senses!

Xo, Dr. B

And please share with a friend that gets your kind of crazy!

12/08/2025

Your body remembers the nights you stayed up too late because it was the only time you had to yourself.

It remembers pushing through postpartum when you needed rest.
It remembers swallowing your words to keep the peace.
It remembers every time you said "I'm fine" when you weren't.

Because it's been pushed to it's limits, TRAPPED in survival mode, your body is asking you to pay attention.

The exhaustion that won't lift. The irritability you can't shake. The way small things feel huge.
Your body is finally insisting you listen.

Motherhood asks you to ignore yourself constantly. But now you know. You KNOW. Deep in your heart. This can't go on. Your brain, your body are gently (and not so gently!) asking you to stop.

Your nervous system has been keeping score. Start honoring what it's been trying to tell you.

Comment READY if you're ready to stop ignoring your body and start supporting it. I'm here for you.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

12/07/2025

Rant incoming: This idea that stay-at-home parents aren't "really working" because there's no paycheck attached is GARBAGE.

I asked this question because I hear it often when meeting new clients. Parents tell me they feel guilty about spending money on themselves. They feel like they need permission. They apologize for wanting support because "it's not their money."

Stop right there.

You're raising entire humans. You're managing a household. You're doing the emotional labor, the mental load, the physical labor, the scheduling, the feeding, the cleaning, the constant decision-making that keeps everyone alive and functioning.

You're working.
Full stop.

The fact that ANYONE would make you feel like you need permission to spend money on yourself because you're not bringing in a paycheck is wild.

Your partner's income is household income. You're both contributing to the family. The fact that your contribution doesn't come with a W-2 doesn't make it less valuable.

You're BOTH working. One of you gets paid in dollars, one of you gets paid in absolutely nothing while doing work that never stops.

So no, you don't need approval to invest in your wellbeing. You don't need to justify prioritizing yourself. You don't need to explain why you deserve anything.

You've earned it a thousand times over.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

12/06/2025

Always kind, not always nice. Repeat daily, and don't let anyone tell you anything different.

12/06/2025

You know how to handle the big stuff. The emergency room visit. The family crisis. The moment everything falls apart.

You're calm. You're clear. You know exactly what to do.

Then you get home and someone asks what's for dinner and you want to scream.

When your nervous system has been running on high alert for long enough, your baseline shifts. You're already operating from survival mode, so actual crises feel manageable. You're already there. No shift required.

The everyday stuff though? The low-grade, persistent overwhelm of regular life? Your system doesn't know how to handle that. It knows danger. It doesn't know mundane.

Minor disruptions hit hard when your system is already burnt out.

Healing means teaching your nervous system that most moments aren't emergencies. That the trip wire can come down. That safety is possible in the ordinary.

Regulation gives you back the ability to exist in regular life without your body treating it like a threat.

Comment READY and I'll DM you so we can chat about what's going on in your world -- and to see if maybe we can help.

Xo, Dr. B 💛

12/05/2025

People WILL dislike you. That's guaranteed. True freedom (and true regulation) shows up when you stop trying to control their perception of you.

People-pleasing feels like kindness, but underneath it's a fawn response (a sibling of the more well known fight or flight response).

Your nervous system learned that managing other people's emotions = staying safe. So you over-explain, over-apologize, and twist yourself into shapes to avoid conflict.

The cost? You stay dysregulated. Your body never gets to rest because it's constantly scanning: Are they mad? Did I say the wrong thing? How can I fix this?

When your nervous system believes your safety depends on being liked, it stays activated. Always monitoring. Always adjusting. Never settling.

REAL regulation happens when you teach your body that someone else's discomfort won't destroy you.

That you can disappoint people and still be safe. That their issue with you belongs to them, not you.

Your nervous system can't regulate while you're abandoning yourself to keep others comfortable.

Let them be uncomfortable.

You'll survive it. And eventually, your body will believe that too.

Comment READY if people-pleasing has been running the show and you're ready to work on this.
Xo, Dr. B 💛

12/04/2025

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