When people — or whole societies — are stuck in survival mode, energy goes to scanning for threat. What disappears isn’t intelligence but capacity: for care, imagination, learning, and long-term coordination. Many of today’s crises are nervous-system crises.

Regulation and relationship aren’t “soft” responses — they’re prerequisites for wiser futures.

https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-that-is-already-there

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