How much do you self-protect?
If you’ve experienced complex trauma—or simply exist in the world today—you’ve likely learned to armor up as a survival mechanism. Hyper-independence, control, withdrawal, constant overthinking… these are all ways we try to keep ourselves safe.
But here’s the paradox:
The very thing that helped you survive is now what’s keeping you stuck.
Self-protection might feel like safety, but it’s actually a barrier.
It cuts you off from intimacy. From connection. From flow.
It even cuts you off from God—the very source of miracles, provision, and safety that you long for.
When you’re self-protecting, your body is in survival mode—that sympathetic nervous system state where everything feels like a threat. It’s rigid. Resistant. Controlling.
It’s the opposite of what creates healing and magnetism.
We weren’t created to white-knuckle our way through life.
We were made to receive, to rest, to trust.
“Be still and know that I am God.”
That stillness? That’s not just quiet time.
That’s a regulation of your nervous system.
That’s a deep, somatic trust that you are held.
But here’s the truth most people won’t tell you:
You can’t mindset your way into that trust.
You have to teach your body what safety feels like.
And that means getting uncomfortable.
Because letting go of self-protection is terrifying when your body still thinks danger is around every corner.
So we learn to stay.
We learn to breathe.
We learn to soften instead of shut down.
This is what somatic trauma healing does—it gives you the capacity to hold your own tenderness.
To be vulnerable without collapsing.
To stop outsourcing safety.
To become magnetic to everything you desire.
We are in a new era.
The old paradigm of hustle, grind, and hyper-masculine control is crumbling.
The new power?
Softness. Authenticity. Nervous system regulation. God-trust.
So I’ll ask you again…
How much do you self-protect?
And are you willing to learn a different way?