#neuroplaticity

Photo by Roger Brown on Pexels.com Even if it were possible to practice self-care perfectly, which it is not because as human beings we are imperfect, we are still bound to get dysregulated—-e.g., thrown off our game, go into fight/flight/freeze/fake mode, have something unexpected happen, etc. And it doesn’t take much for neurospicy people to become dysregulated. For example, I spill or drop…

Peggy Orenstein, author of 'Cindrella Ate My Daughter', on neuroplasticity :

Consider language: We’re born able to make any sound but we lose the ability to make the sounds needed to speak other languages. In English-speaking culture, for instance, a lot of adults can’t roll their Rs. We were born with the ability to do so but that drops away. It’s not nature vs nurture – it’s how nurture becomes nature.