In this episode of Owning Pleasure as a Black Woman, we dive into sensory disconnection and emotional numbness—that feeling of moving through your life but not actually living it.

Tune in as we explore why high-achieving Black women become disconnected from their senses, what this pattern is protecting you from, and what it costs when numbness becomes your baseline. If you're looking to understand why you achieve everything but feel nothing, you won't want to miss this one!

● Sensory disconnection is adaptation, not brokenness: When you've spent years being the strong one, your nervous system learns to protect you from overwhelm by disconnecting you from sensation. This wasn't a failure—it was survival.

● You can't selectively numb: When you turn down the volume on pain, exhaustion, and resentment to keep functioning, you also turn it down on joy, pleasure, and aliveness. The same mechanism that helps you survive prevents you from thriving.

● Understanding precedes reconnection: Trying to force yourself back into feeling without understanding why you disconnected often reinforces the pattern. Real reconnection begins with compassion for the version of you who needed numbness to survive.

Listen Now: Ready to understand why you've been watching your life happen instead of living it? Hit play to discover why you can't feel anything anymore—and what that means you need!

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● Therapy Intake Form: If you're ready to move from understanding your disconnection to actually reconnecting with support, complete the intake form at javerywellness.com/get-started

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About Javery Integrative Wellness Services: We guide high-achieving Black women from overthinking to embodied wisdom, helping you break free from inherited survival patterns so you can create a life that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside.

Our culturally responsive therapists understand that for Black women, sensory disconnection often has layers of trauma, survival, and cultural conditioning woven through it—and we provide the support to safely reconnect.