26 - 5 Things You Shouldn't Do If Your Nervous System Is Sensitized
26 - 5 Things You Shouldn't Do If Your Nervous System Is Sensitized  
Podcast: The Real Work with Maggie Sterling
Published On: Wed Feb 11 2026
Description: Get my nervous system sensitization course Take the nervous system sensitization quiz If your nervous system is sensitized, the things you instinctively want to do are probably making it worse.In this video, I'm sharing 5 things I would stop doing immediately if I were in the thick of sensitization — and I know because I did all of them for years. This is stabilization work. The goal isn't optimization — it's to stop making things worse so your system can do what it already knows how to do.