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The Nervous System Already Knows

"There is a kind of knowing that lives beneath thought. It speaks in sensation, in the pull of a breath held too long."

What if the most intelligent thing we could do in a moment of overwhelm is to stop trying to think our way out of it?

March 2026 · 2 min read

On the intelligence of incomplete gestures and what happens when the body is finally given space to finish what it started.

On what it means to facilitate from the inside out and why the most durable leadership emerges from the body rather than the resume.

A short reflection on the difference between being witnessed and being seen and why only one of them actually moves something.