SAGE & SASS

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Your Solar Plexus Just Called an Emergency Board Meeting (And the Agenda Is Your Entire Life)

And the Agenda Is Why You've Been Running Your Life From a Trauma-Filled Basement

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Dea Devidas
Sep 03, 2025
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Picture this: You’ve got this absolutely LEGENDARY executive living right above your belly button. We’re talking a solar-powered CEO who’s naturally brilliant at running your personal power grid. This biological mastermind has been flawlessly managing your energy distribution, your digestive fire, your capacity to say “no” without a three-paragraph explanation since day one.

Your solar plexus is actual anatomy, not metaphor. The celiac plexus, sitting right where your rib cage meets your spine, is the largest autonomic nerve center outside your brain. It governs digestion, gut feeling, instinctive responses, and that thing where you KNOW something is wrong before your mind catches up. Your belly brain has more neurons than a cat’s entire brain. It’s been running operations while your thinking brain takes credit.

But here’s what happened: Life kept throwing impossible demands at your inner CEO. Trauma bombs that your system couldn’t process in real time. Overwhelming situations that woul…

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