SAGE & SASS

SAGE & SASS

Shatter Your Somatic Armor: A Practical Guide to Breaking What's Been Breaking You

(Or: How to Perform Nervous System Surgery With a Dinner Plate and Zero Medical Training)

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Dea Devidas
Aug 24, 2025
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When your life starts thunder-dancing above your head, most people run for cover. But here’s the neurological plot twist: that rumbling isn’t meant to scare you. It’s your nervous system’s demolition crew arriving right on schedule, ready to tear down the walls you built when you were seven and too small to know there were other options. ⛈

Your body has been holding a revolution in storage. Every contraction you learned, every armor you built, every “keep it together” you white-knuckled through... it’s all still in there, pressing against the walls of your tissue, waiting for permission to finally move.

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The Nuclear Power Plant in Your Ribcage:

Listen up, beautiful chaos-creature: You’ve got a goddamn nuclear reactor humming inside your chest, and you’ve been treating it like a broken nightlight that flickers when you jiggle the cord just right.

That restless energy churning in your depths? Those midnight thoughts that won’t shut up no matter how many sleep podcasts you’ve tried? That


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