THE SHIELD: Learning to love beyond your defenses

You are not broken. You are adapted. And adaptation can be rewired. The shield you built to survive trauma is now the thing keeping you from living. You can't relax. You can't let people in. You're exhausted from constant hypervigilance. Your nervous system is stuck in fight-or-flight, and you don't know how to turn it off. Lower the Shield offers a practical, science-based roadmap for healing when your body won't let you rest. Drawing on neuroscience and the work of Bessel van der Kolk, St...