SAGE & SASS

SAGE & SASS

When Your Body Writes Checks Your Nervous System Can't Cash

Or: Why You Know Exactly What to Do But Your Flesh Keeps Filing for Extension

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Dea Devidas
Sep 04, 2025
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You know that soul-crushing paradox where your entire being screams “YES!” like it’s at a Beyoncé concert front row with backstage passes, but your body just... freezes? Like someone hit the pause button on the Netflix series of your existence and now you’re stuck buffering indefinitely while the little spinning wheel mocks your entire life trajectory?

Welcome to the most exclusive club nobody wants to join, darling. Membership is free but the dues are paid in existential confusion and 3am ceiling-staring.

Your body already knows what you want. Your tissue has been voting yes for months. The signal is clear, pulsing through your blood like a message your cells keep sending while your conscious mind keeps marking it as spam. Something in you is ready. Something in you has BEEN ready. The freeze isn’t confusion. It’s a traffic jam between knowing and doing.

This isn’t a story about how you “lack clarity.” Please, spare me that recycled personal development small talk that’s been circulatin…

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