SAGE & SASS

SAGE & SASS

When Someone Lights You Up (And Your Ego Immediately Asks for Their Netflix Password)

(Or: Why That Electric Connection Might Be a Nervous System Wake-Up Call, Not a Wedding Invitation)

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Dea Devidas
Aug 21, 2025
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Holy neuro plot twist, Batman! 🦇

Some of those deep emotional connections you’re having? They’re not signs you’ve become a Stage 5 Clinger or that you’re carrying around relational baggage like it’s Louis Vuitton and you paid full price so you’re damn well going to use it. They’re nervous system recognitions, and honey, your body has EXCELLENT taste in resonance.

Your nervous system recognizes coherence before your mind constructs a story about it. Something in your tissue remembers a frequency it’s been missing. Your cells start humming a song they forgot they knew, and suddenly you’re awake in a way you didn’t know you’d been asleep.

Picture this: Someone walks into your life and suddenly you remember who you are when you’re not cosplaying as a background character in your own Netflix series. That’s not coincidence. That’s not destiny. That’s mirror neurons firing, co-regulation happening, your nervous system finding a frequency match that reflects something you’d forgotten you contai…

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