Completing The Stress Cycle When Stress Never Ends

“The cycle looks like this:

A stressor appears (external or internal)
The body mobilizes to respond
The stressor is removed or managed
The body receives signals of safety and releases the remaining stress“

https://neurodivergentinsights.com/completing-stress-cycle/

With a visual guide at the end of the article if you prefer mostly visual content.

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Completing The Stress Cycle When The Stress Never Ends

Dr Neff explores why the nervous system struggles to return to safety.

Neurodivergent Insights

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I've read Dr Neff for a while now. Everything I've read has been helpful and useful ... and fact-checkably so! 👍 😀

@adelinej @autistics Sadly the site is not reachable for me right now- weird - I’ll try again later