Body-First Healing Podcast Why You Resist Rest & How to Slow Down Your Nervous System
Dec 10, 2025
Feeling the urge to speed up? Discover why your nervous system fights rest and how to recalibrate your internal rhythm. Britt dives into the science of pace, revealing how our biology shapes our need for urgency and makes slowing down feel unsafe. She also shares practical somatic tools to help alleviate resistance, linking personal identity to our hurried lifestyles. Explore the vagus nerve, its role in regulating stress, and learn that slowing down isn’t about doing less, but about engaging with life more fully.
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Living In A Quiet Hurry
- Many people live with subtle sympathetic activation as their baseline, which feels like a constant quiet hurry through the body.
- Britt Piper explains this isn't pathological but becomes costly when it never shifts back into restoration.
Biology Mirrors Seasons
- Human biology evolved with seasonal and ecological rhythms, not office calendars and constant light.
- Britt Piper notes our circadian and hormonal systems mirror nature, creating an ancient pull toward inwardness.
Seasonal Dissonance Explains Burnout
- Cultural demands often conflict with biological signals, producing 'seasonal dissonance.'
- This mismatch creates mood shifts, sleep problems, immune dips, and chronic off-ness.
