SAGE & SASS

SAGE & SASS

Why Your Heart Knows Things Your Brain Doesn't Want to Admit

(The Complete Guide to Your Invisible Connections and How to Use Them as Superpowers)

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Dea Devidas
Sep 19, 2025
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Welcome to Nervous System Customer Service Hell

Picture this: You’re finally, FINALLY over your ex. You’ve done the yoga, bought the crystals, cleansed your everything, and convinced yourself you’re basically Gandhi with better hair products. You’re sitting in a café, radiating enlightened detachment like a spiritually evolved houseplant, when WHAM!!! your heart starts doing the Macarena.

You check your phone. Nothing. You check your pulse. Still alive. You check your spiritual superiority complex. Intact but trembling.

Then your ex texts: “Thinking of you 💭”

Your nervous system recognized them before your phone did. Your body knew before your brain caught up. Your heart was already responding to a signal your conscious mind hadn’t registered yet. This is how connection actually works: beneath language, beneath logic, in the tissue where memory lives.

You stare at your phone like it just told you it’s been in contact with your mother about your dating life. Your first thought: “How the he…

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