Your nervous system has been running on high alert since your diagnosis, and most of you have gotten so used to it that you don’t even recognize it as a problem anymore.

You just call it your normal. The hypervigilance before every MRI. The way your heart rate picks up when you feel a new symptom and your brain immediately starts running worst-case scenarios. The tension you carry in your body that doesn’t leave even on the days when nothing is wrong, because your nervous system stopped trusting that nothing is wrong a long time ago. That’s survival mode, and it’s exhausting in a way that has nothing to do with your MS, lupus, or NMOSD and everything to do with what living in a body you can’t predict does to the system that’s supposed to keep you regulated. Dr. Deliqua Isom is a Mindset Architect, Nervous System Strategist, and Best-Selling Author with a Ph.D. in Business Administration, and her session at Wellness Week(end) is about what’s actually happening inside your body when you’re stuck in that cycle and what it takes to shift out of it. Not with platitudes, not with “just relax,” but with real neuroscience-backed strategies you can use when your body won’t stop bracing for the next thing. This is one session in a weekend full of them. October 30 through November 1, JW Marriott Buckhead in Atlanta. General admission is $200, VIP is $375. Comment TICKET and we’ll send you the link. #WeAreILLMatic #WellnessWeekend #BlackWomenWithMS #LupusAwareness #ChronicIllnessCommunity