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Why intellectual recovery knowledge fails in trigger moments

I know all the recovery mantras and I can recite them perfectly but when I am standing in front of the fridge at midnight they mean nothing.

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Cognitive understanding cannot override embodied responses when the nervous system perceives threat.

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