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I do a daily dose in Hope Reimagined Rooted community and I thought this dose iwill serve this community of therapists. I think the podcast may speak to you, given your caretaking of family.
I've been sitting with something that stopped me in my tracks this week.
I was listening to Prentis Hemphill's The Becoming podcast — and they were exploring the profound, often overlooked power of care. Not just giving it. Receiving it.
And I had to pause. Because so many of us in healing, helping, and holding work have become fluent in one direction of care — outward — and quietly starved in the other.
So today's question is simple. And it isn't.
Who cares for you? Who do you care for? And what does that web of care ask of you — and give back to you?
Within the Neuro-Somatic Integration™ Framework, relationship is not soft support work — it is a biological resource. Your nervous system literally regulates through the presence of others. Care is not a luxury. It is architecture.
But here's what often gets missed:
Co-regulation requires both directions to work.
When care only flows outward, the nervous system eventually stops registering safety. We become the regulated presence for everyone else — and quietly lose our own ground.
💚 Take a breath. Feel your feet.
And ask yourself honestly:
  • Who can I call when I'm not okay?
  • Who holds space for me to be uncertain, tired, or undone?
  • When someone offers me care, can I actually receive it — or does it make me uncomfortable?
  • How does being cared for serve not just me, but everyone I show up for?
Drop in below. 👇 Who's in your care web? And where might there be a gap?
This is a living question — not a performance. There are no right answers here. Just honest ones.
Rooted in Science. Guided by Nature. Embodied in Practice. 🌱
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Susan Andrien
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