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Why presence feels impossible when you have trauma and anxiety

I keep reading about being present but my mind constantly jumps to the past trauma and future worries and presence feels like a luxury I can't access.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The invitation to presence must account for nervous systems that have learned vigilance as survival, not failing at peace.

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