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Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD

@LORWEN108

Aug 28, 2025 • 13 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X

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Your brain was NEVER designed for modern-day Western society.

As a Harvard-trained psychologist, here are 5 reasons why you can't:

-Sleep
-Overthink
-And, feel exhausted.

Read this NOW if you want to be free....🧵

Anxiety isn’t a “disorder.”

It’s a powerful signal meant to wake you up from the hypnotic trance of modern-day living.

It’s telling you that you’ve drifted away from your true self and what it means to be truly human.

Three core networks run your reality:

* Salience Network (SN)
* Default Mode Network (DMN)
* Executive Control Network (ECN)

When hijacked, they trap you in survival mode 24/7.

Reason #1: When your SN is hijacked--everything feels like an emergency.

Your salience network was built to spot a tiger in the grass...

NOT Twitter hooks and bling.

Yet, every time you check your iPhone your SN spikes into high alert.

You live in constant threat and fear.

Reason #2: When your DMN is hijacked, your mind won't stop time-traveling.

Instead of resting, it replays old wounds, reviews past conversations, and rehearses disasters.

You’re stuck in negative thought loops reviewing past and future events that prevent you from accessing the present moment.

Reason #3: When your ECN is hijacked, you stay stuck in catastrophe thinking.

Your Executive Control Network (ECN) should steer you toward clarity and success.

Instead, it locks you into:

1. “What ifs”
2. Future disaster imaginings
3. Repeated circular rumination.

Reason #4: Your neural networks fight with each other.

1. Your SN screams "danger."
2. Your DMN continuously loops on the past.
3. Your ECN thinks worst-case scenario.

As a result, your brain stays stuck on red alert.

Reason #5: Society has weaponized your biology (and you're not aware of this!)

For instance:

1. Your SN is hijacked by clickbait (news and media).
2. Endless FOMO hijacks your DMN.
3. Productivity hijacks your ECN.

Modern culture profits from your brain being hijacked.

The result. You...

1. Relive pain that has already passed.
2. Predict disasters that never happen.
3. Miss a life you could have had.

Because modern-day society traps your attention and works against free thinking.

But here’s where it gets interesting.

Anxiety isn’t your enemy.
It’s an alarm signal in modern-day society that you are disconnected from your truth.

It is calling you back to authentic connection.

Your 3 neural networks are out of alignment.
Ask yourself these 3 questions...

"What aspect of your authentic self is trying to emerge?"
"Where are you living others' expectations rather than your own?"
"How is your anxiety pointing you toward emotional growth?"

Your answers will reveal your truth.

If you want a deeper dive into present moment awareness...

Here are my tools to rewire your three neural networks and help you return to present-moment awareness.

1. Walk outdoors without devices (reset SN)
2. Draw to turn rumination into imagination (rebalance DMN)
3. Train emotional intelligence (realign ECN)

If you are feeling overwhelmed by life, book a free discovery call with me.
You don't have to go it alone.

calendly.com/lorwen_consult…

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It’s stored in your nervous system.

Here are 8 body-based ways to release it (without medication) 🧵

1. Walk barefoot on natural ground for a few minutes.

Your feet contain ~200,000 nerve endings that ground you.

There's evidence that inflammation markers drop significantly when you are in direct contact with the earth.

Walking barefoot floods the brain with sensory signals, helping shift attention from rumination to physical awareness.

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The hands are rich in sensory receptors.

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The most dangerous, oddly glorified, yet overlooked problem in the world:

Overpreparing and underliving.

Here are 5 ways it quietly dysregulates your mind, strains your body, and costs you your life — and 4 ways to recover:🧵

1. It locks your body into chronic anticipation.

The more you mentally rehearse danger, the more your stress response stays activated.

Over time, chronic stress-hormone activation can impair sleep, weaken recovery, and strain immune function.

2. It keeps you absent from your actual life.

You are in tomorrow’s conversation.
Next week’s mistake.
The imagined fallout.

Meanwhile, your life is happening without you.

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Mar 10

The most influential psychologist of the 20th century wrote private letters to his children.

They weren’t about therapy.

They were about how to survive being human without losing your soul.

Here are 9 principles Carl Jung QUIETLY taught his children—that most people never hear about: 🧵

First, understand who Jung was:

• Medical doctor + psychiatrist
• Founder of analytical psychology
• Broke with Freud at the height of his career
• Studied myth, religion, alchemy, and dreams
• Treated world leaders, artists, and thinkers

But his most radical work wasn’t in books.

It was in how he taught his children to live.

Principle 1: “Do not become what the world wants from you.”

Jung warned his children that society rewards adaptation—but punishes authenticity.

“If you live only as you are expected, you will become empty.”

The task wasn’t to be successful.

It was to become whole.

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Mar 9

Fight or flight is wrecking your sleep MORE than you realize.

Here are 7 science-backed ways to calm your nervous system (without meds).🧵

If you grab your phone at 3 a.m.,
your nervous system is spiraling in fight or flight.

1. Charge your phone outside the bedroom.

Late-night scrolling keeps your brain stimulated
when your body is supposed to be winding down.

More light.
More input.
More activation.

That makes it harder to fall asleep
and easier to spiral when you wake up at 3 a.m.

2. Physiological Sigh or long exhales

Long exhales help interrupt the stress loop.

They signal to your body that the immediate threat has passed.

Do this for 3–5 minutes
and the sense of internal threat starts to ease.

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Modern life is feeding you mental junk food.

Carl Gustav Carus—a physician, painter, and precursor to Jung—saw why.

Here are 7 things wrecking your inner life. 🧵

1. Losing contact with nature.

Carus did not separate medicine, art, and inner life.

He painted landscapes because he knew nature restores something modern life cuts off.

Walking outside without noise or distraction is not a luxury.

It is one of the ways the deeper life begins to return.

2. Never making images of your inner life.

Carus knew something medicine alone could not explain:

the psyche reveals itself in images.

That is why art matters.

If you never draw, imagine, reflect, or give form to what moves inside you,

your deeper life stays mute—and anxiety stays shapeless.

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1. Cold water on your face.

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It triggers the mammalian diving reflex → increases parasympathetic (vagal) activity and slows your heart rate, which helps interrupt panic attacks.

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Long exhales increase respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and vagal calming. Your entire body relaxes, and visual clarity is restored.

This often increases HRV and shifts autonomic balance away from the fight-or-flight response.