Moving slowly comes from carrying invisible weight. While others walk unencumbered, you are carrying survival gear, managing activation, recovering from triggers. Simple tasks require navigating internal obstacles they do not have. What looks like laziness is actually exhaustion, what looks like procrastination is actually overwhelm, what looks like simple tasks are actually complex negotiations with a nervous system that will not cooperate.
Living in molasses means falling behind despite effort, being judged for speed you cannot achieve, exhausting yourself with tasks others do easily.
Moving through it means honoring your pace, recognizing that you carry more, trusting that slow progress is still progress.
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Content informed by trauma research, polyvagal theory (Stephen Porges), somatic experiencing (Peter Levine), and nervous system regulation studies. For comprehensive citations and further reading, see Unfiltered Wisdom: The Book.
About the Author
Robert Greene is the author and founder of Unfiltered Wisdom, a US Navy veteran, and a trauma survivor with over 10 years of experience in nervous system regulation and somatic healing. He is certified in Yoga for Meditation from the Yogic School of Mystic Arts (Dharamsala, India, 2016) and affiliated with Holistic Veterans, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving veterans in Santa Cruz, California.