SAGE & SASS

SAGE & SASS

How to Stop Running Relationship Software from People Who Blocked You

A Practice for Clearing Old Love Patterns from Your Nervous System

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Dea Devidas
Feb 12, 2025
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Ever notice how some people drain your battery while others charge it? You walk into a room, make eye contact with one specific human, and suddenly you’re exhausted like you just ran an emotional marathon in dress shoes. Meanwhile, your friend who talks for three hours straight somehow leaves you feeling energized. You’ve been blaming “chemistry” and “compatibility” like those explain anything, when really it’s about the invisible network of relational imprints your nervous system has been collecting and hoarding like a digital packrat with unlimited cloud storage and zero organizational skills.

Your tissue holds every significant connection you’ve ever had. Not as memory, but as pattern. Your fascia has been filing relational data without your conscious consent, creating grooves that keep running the same programs long after the relationship has its read receipts turned off.

This is about clearing those old emotional patterns that keep you stuck in repeat mode, and creating space for connections that actually nourish instead of just activating your attachment wounds in increasingly creative configurations.

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The Truth About Connection (Spoiler Alert: Your Body Already Knows)

Picture yourself on a perfect beach day, when your mind isn’t doing its usual circus act of worries, what-ifs, and unsolicited commentary on your life choices. That expansive feeling? That’s you in a regulated state. Not the Hollywood rom-com version of love where violins play and you run through airports. Just your nervous system in ventral vagal, your heart rate variability optimized, your entire being available for actual connection instead of running threat-detection protocols on everyone within a six-foot radius.

Your chest knows the difference between genuine openness and the performance of openness. Your heart has its own electromagnetic field extending several feet from your body, broadcasting your actual state regardless of what your mouth is saying. Your cells don’t lie. They resonate.

When we say “I feel good with you,” what we’re actually saying is “My nervous system regulates in your presence.” Not mystical. Measurable. Your body has been tracking this data while your conscious mind was busy constructing elaborate theories about why your last three relationships failed (spoiler: your theories are probably wrong, but your body’s data is accurate).

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