If you’ve ever said, “I know I’m safe, but I don’t feel safe,” this is why!

Fear isn’t the enemy. It’s protection. At some point, your nervous system decided something wasn’t safe and it adapted. It learned to scan. To brace. To overthink. To withdraw. To control. That adaptation may have protected you once. But protection can quietly become a prison when it never turns off. And here’s the part we don’t talk about enough: Fear doesn’t heal through logic alone. It heals through safe relationships.