You may have learned to anticipate other people’s needs, manage their emotions, soften their discomfort, or stay hyperaware of what could go wrong.

But your body was never meant to be the place where someone else’s unresolved pain gets rehearsed.

In this grounding reflection, Demenna explores what it means to recognize these patterns with compassion, begin separating your safety from someone else’s emotional experience, and make room for a more regulated relationship with yourself.