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What Is a Window of Tolerance (And How to Find Yours)
Trauma Therapy Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 12/3/25 Trauma Therapy Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 12/3/25

What Is a Window of Tolerance (And How to Find Yours)

Your nervous system has a natural zone where you can handle stress without overwhelm - it’s called your window of tolerance. In this blog, I also share how trauma impacts it and become more aware of yours.

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Your Body Remembers: The Subtle Ways Trauma Lives in the Nervous System
Trauma Therapy Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 10/16/25 Trauma Therapy Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 10/16/25

Your Body Remembers: The Subtle Ways Trauma Lives in the Nervous System

Have you heard the phrase “the body keeps the score”? Even if you don’t recall every detail, trauma can live in your body and nervous system. Here’s how it shows up - and how healing begins.

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Sometimes the patterns that exhaust you now… are the ones that once kept you safe and protected. ⁣
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Now it’s about understanding where they came from, what they protected you from, and learning new ways to feel supported, connected, and High functioning codependency shows up as having it all together on the outside - fixing, being the supportive friend, always dependable.⁣
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But internally there’s a lot of pain. A lot of deeply internalized beliefs about where your worth comes Your window of tolerance is the optimal zone where you can effectively connect with others, function best, think rationally, and manage life’s stressors!⁣
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It’s important to have awareness of your window. In therapy you can learn your tr Lately I’ve been talking with so many clients about the difference between resting and shutting down.⁣
They look the same on the outside… but inside, they’re super different .⁣
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If you’ve ever wondered why some “rest&r December tends to be super busy. ⁣
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So personally, this month I’m letting my system exhale. ⁣
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Less urgency, more pacing. Less “should,” and more “what do I want and need?” ⁣
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Rather than speed things up this month an
Happy Thanksgiving 🧡🤎⁣
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A gentle reminder you don’t have to be the peacemaker, the fixer, or the emotional buffer today.⁣
You just get to be human. ⁣
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And that gratitude & thankfulness doesn’t take away from the struggles! We can Thanksgiving is basically the Olympics for people-pleasers.⁣
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Family, food, travel, noise, old patterns - it all gets activated at once.⁣
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If you catch yourself over-explaining, over-apologizing, scanning people’s moods, or trying to keep the So many over functioners grew up managing the emotional temperature of every room you walked into.⁣
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Not because you wanted to… but because you had to.⁣
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If you still notice yourself scanning for tension, smoothing things over, or stepping i

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