Your mental, spiritual and social well-being strongly influences your physical health. The mind and body are deeply interconnected. In fact, it is a bidirectional system. Emotional dysregulation, the inability to manage and control emotions effectively, can significantly affect physical health, leading to various physical symptoms and potentially worsening existing conditions.

Whether you’re shifting your worldview, your parenting style, your relationships, or your values—you’re allowed to evolve. Your needs are allowed to change. Your priorities are allowed to shift. And your life doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s to be valid. 

Somewhere along the way, you internalized messages about who you should be in order to be accepted, safe, or loved. Maybe those messages came from caregivers, teachers, culture, religion, or peers. Maybe they were loud and cruel—or quiet and implied. Over time, they became a kind of mental background noise.