Everything feels hard because you are operating while managing trauma. When your nervous system is constantly hypervigilant, when your brain is scanning for threats others do not perceiveāsimple tasks require extra processing that others do not need. Managing your internal state while navigating external demands leaves little energy for the demands themselves.
Walking through treacle means exhausting yourself with basic tasks, falling behind despite effort, watching others accomplish easily what takes you enormous energy. You are not lazy; you are carrying weight that others do not see.
Moving more easily means addressing the trauma that slows you, creating internal safety so your system does not have to work so hard, accepting that your path requires more effort than others paths.
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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.