Aimee Goodwin

What Aimee talked about

Aimee Goodwin discussed how chronic activation of the fight-or-flight response undermines decision-making, creativity, and healing, arguing that this stress response is meant for acute danger rather than everyday stressors like traffic or arguments. She described specific breathing patterns, including 5-5-7 and 4-7-8 techniques, as practical tools she uses in her practice to help calm the nervous system within minutes.

She also spoke about her own experience with a five-year delayed Lyme disease diagnosis, using it to illustrate how tick-borne illness can present atypically and go unrecognized by doctors. Drawing on her experience with grief, including the loss of a child, she talked about building resilience through pausing, self-assessing without judgment, and reframing hardship as a lesson rather than a failure.

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