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Why slowing down feels impossible even when you want to

My toddler keeps asking me to slow down when we walk to daycare but I cannot seem to match her pace without feeling anxious about being late.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your nervous system has become conditioned to urgency as a baseline state.

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