Heidi, a 34-year-old former ballet dancer, found herself trapped in a cycle of digestive pain, anxiety, and bouts of extreme exhaustion. Despite feeling that her body was desperately signaling for help, Heidi was unaware that the root cause lay in her overreactive nervous system.
Like a malfunctioning home security alarm that couldn’t be silenced, Heidi’s internal defenses were in a constant state of high alert. Her perfectionist tendencies were a manifestation of her sympathetic nervous system’s response—a self-protective strategy to ward off her fear of failure.
