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Tag: loss

When the loss is real

Post author By Dr. Dave DeLapp
Post date July 23, 2026

The last three newsletters were about a kind of false alarm — the body bracing for a loss that isn’t actually coming, treating an ordinary disagreement as if it were the end of a relationship. Most of the time, that’s exactly what it is: a false alarm, worth talking your nervous system down from. […]

Tags anger, bracing, defensive, friendship, grief, let go, loss, posture, pretend, resentment, tension, Truth, unresolved grief

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Steady with difference

Post author By Dr. Dave DeLapp
Post date July 11, 2026

Last week I wrote about a pattern I see constantly in patients: a lot of the emotional tension they carry in their shoulders, jaw, low back, and gut isn’t really about disagreement itself. It’s about the fear underneath it — that if you don’t come around to someone else’s way of seeing things, they’ll pull […]

Tags bracing, breath, chronic, clenching, difference, discomfort, loss, my way, nervous exercise, pain patterns, posture, threat, triggering