Your body learned them before your mind caught up.

The pull you feel is not emotional weakness.

It’s procedural memory. Your nervous system learned when to wait, when to appease, when relief would come, and when it would be ripped away.

This is why you can KNOW the relationship was harmful and still feel panic when you imagine fully letting go.

Your body doesn’t care about explanations. It cares about perceived safety.

And right now, unfamiliar peace still registers as threat.

This is not something you “push through.” This is something you retrain.

BODY CHECK
Scan your body slowly. Where is the tightest place right now? Don’t fix it. Just notice it.

Awareness weakens the loop.