The Real Work with Maggie Sterling 21 - 3 Things to Avoid When Healing Your Nervous System
Jan 5, 2026
Discover why some popular nervous system healing practices might be keeping you stuck. Learn to stop viewing regulation as a project and hyper-monitoring yourself, which only heightens anxiety. Maggie emphasizes the importance of recognizing the difference between listening to your needs and fear-driven self-checking. By redirecting your attention and living fully despite your symptoms, you can begin to retrain your brain and build resilience. Embrace uncertainty to lower pressure and invite a sense of safety into your life!
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Regulation Is A Way Of Being
- Stop treating nervous system regulation as a project with an end date and checklist.
- Shift to a way of being that changes how you respond and relate to your body and life.
Protocols Can Signal Threat
- Rigid step-by-step protocols create pressure and signal threat to the nervous system.
- Maggie Sterling healed by changing how she was being rather than following a prescriptive program.
Stop All-Day Self-Checking
- Stop monitoring and checking your body all day because it keeps attention on threat.
- Re-engage with life and shift attention away from symptoms to weaken their circuitry.