Join the Boundary Brilliance Masterclass: https://www.brendawinkle.com/boundary-brilliance Brenda Winkle, the host of the podcast "Your Yes Field Life," discusses the topic of overriding the nervous system. She shares her personal experience of attending a conference in Boise, Idaho, where she spoke on diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as taught breathwork for educators. Brenda explains that overriding the nervous system can have negative effects on vitality, creativity, joy, and overall well-being. She provides cues to recognize if one is overriding their nervous system and emphasizes the importance of setting boundaries and taking care of our physical and mental well-being. 

Here are the takeaways...

1. Overriding your nervous system has negative effects of on vitality, creativity, joy, and well-being
2. Cues to recognize if one is overwriting their nervous system include exhaustion, numbing, lots of obligations and a busy schedule, having a short fuse and being quick to anger, exhaustion sleep won't help, you find yourself thinking, "I've just got to make it through this ____"
3. Energy has no walls and affects our creations and interactions
   Coping mechanisms and the need to cope with something
4. Boundaries are a solution to taking better care of physical and mental well-being

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