You’ve tried to talk yourself down from the spiral. You’ve read the books, practiced mindfulness, and told yourself to “just breathe.”

But your chest still tightens. Your thoughts still race. Your body still tenses at the smallest cue of discomfort.

That’s because anxiety doesn’t start in the mind. It lives in the body.

And until we work with the body, talk alone may never feel like enough.

You’ve done the work. You’ve journaled, read the books, unpacked your childhood in therapy. You know why you feel anxious. You’ve named the patterns.

But still—your body won’t let you exhale.

Your thoughts race, your stomach tightens, your sleep is disrupted, and your nervous system stays on high alert. You’ve outgrown survival, but your anxiety hasn’t caught up yet.

If that sounds familiar, talk therapy isn’t failing you. It just might not be reaching the part of you that needs the most support.

You lie awake at night replaying conversations, planning for every possible outcome, trying to figure out how to make everyone okay.

You’re emotionally aware, high-functioning, deeply caring—and exhausted.

You don’t need to “calm down.” You need to be understood.