08/27/2026
Our Nervous Systems Were Not Designed for Capitalism
A reflection on productivity, worth, and nervous system dysregulation under oppressive systems.
Tomorrow, we return to our monthly Foundational Care Series with a conversation that asks us to look beyond burnout and productivity — and into what our bodies may have learned about worth, survival, and enoughness.
What happens inside you when you stop producing?
For some of us, slowing down doesn’t immediately feel peaceful. It can bring up guilt, anxiety, restlessness, shame, fear, emptiness, or even the question: “Who am I if I am not doing?”
This month, we’re exploring how systems of urgency, overwork, inequity, and constant productivity can become more than something happening around us — they can become embodied within us.
We may begin measuring our worth by how much we accomplish.
Rest has to be earned.
Being needed becomes belonging.
Busyness becomes safety.
Exhaustion becomes normal.
And slowing down can expose everything we haven’t had the capacity or safety to feel.
Our conversation tomorrow invites a different question:
If my body learned that being productive made me valuable, who did I learn I needed to become in order to survive — and who might I become if I no longer had to prove my worth through productivity?
That is the work of our Foundational Care Series: accessible, 45-minute virtual conversations each month that help us bring trauma-responsive care out of theory and into the realities of our bodies, relationships, workplaces, communities, and systems.
Because perhaps slowing down isn’t about doing less.
Perhaps it is about finally being able to hear what constant doing has kept us from feeling.
Join us tomorrow over the lunch hour. 🌿
📆 Aug 28, 2026 12-12:45pm, virtual
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