When the Nervous System Hits Its Limit 🧠⚠️☕

Yesterday didn’t fall apart — it overheated.

Around 4 PM, my body hit its limit.
Not emotionally. Not mentally first.
Physically. 🫠

That specific kind of overheating where your temperature feels wrong, your skin feels tight, and your thoughts don’t race — they blur.
No decision. No debate.
My nervous system pulled the plug. 🔌

I slept until 11:18 PM.

Not because I wanted to.
Because my body needed to dump adrenaline, reset chemistry, and stop pretending it could keep going. 🛌

That wasn’t failure.
That was containment.

The Restart 🔄

At 11:18 PM, I woke up fully online. ⚡
Clear. Focused. Ready.

No grogginess.
No fog.
No “ease back into it.”

Just full force — all the way until 6 AM. 🚀

Then I slept again.
A short nap.
6 to 7 AM. ⏰

And since then?
It’s been go, go, go. 🏃‍♀️💨

Not because everything is fixed.
Not because my nervous system magically reset.

But because capacity came back in pieces — and I worked with what I had.

Doing Life Mid–Nervous System Collapse 🧠🪫

Here’s the part that matters:

I’m still dealing with a nervous system collapse.
That didn’t disappear overnight.

There’s still sensitivity.
Still careful pacing.
Still moments where I have to pause and check in instead of push through. 🛑

But today didn’t need perfection.
It needed regulation.

Why Cooking Mattered Today 🍳🤍

Cooking today wasn’t about productivity.
It wasn’t about the outcome.

It was about rhythm.

Hands busy.
Heat controlled.
Steps in order.
Something tangible becoming real in front of me. 🥣☕

Cooking gave my nervous system:

• Predictability

• Sensory grounding

• A beginning, middle, and end

And for today — even if it’s just today — that was enough to bring me back into my body. 🌿

The Truth About Days Like This 🌱

This hasn’t been a smooth timeline.
It’s been:

• Crash

• Reset

• Surge

• Pause

• Move

Messy.
Productive.
Human. 🎢

Regulation doesn’t always look calm.
Sometimes it looks like listening closely, adjusting constantly, and choosing the one thing that helps your system settle — even temporarily.

Today, that thing was cooking. 🍳🪑

And honestly?

Even if it only worked for today —
that still counts. ☕✨