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Inspired by depression and major depressive disorder. Depression is often misinterpreted as a constant feeling of sadness, when the reality is that depression comes from a dorsal vagal, or "freeze" state. It is when our vagus nerve goes into shutdown from overwhelm, overstimulation, and even out of fear or threat. The true symptoms include feeling as though one is outside of the body, dissociation, apathy, numbness, an emptiness within. One is not present within the self. Whereas sadness is a normal part of life, people with depression find it difficult to feel sadness or willingly cry as a form of release. The color is drained from our being. It is an emptiness, immobilization, the body is hollow, we are "spaced out."

- From the teachings of Dr. Nicole LePera

Description
"Whole"

Inspired by depression and major depressive disorder. Depression is often misinterpreted as a constant feeling of sadness, when the reality is that depression comes from a dorsal vagal, or "freeze" state. It is when our vagus nerve goes into shutdown from overwhelm, overstimulation, and even out of fear or threat. The true symptoms include feeling as though one is outside of the body, dissociation, apathy, numbness, an emptiness within. One is not present within the self. Whereas sadness is a normal part of life, people with depression find it difficult to feel sadness or willingly cry as a form of release. The color is drained from our being. It is an emptiness, immobilization, the body is hollow, we are "spaced out."

- From the teachings of Dr. Nicole LePera