💾 Save this for the days your nervous system is doing the most. If you’re a special needs mum who feels anxious, snappy, wired, numb or completely shut down, this isn’t a personal failing. It’s your nervous system responding to long-term stress. When you live in constant caregiving mode, your body can get stuck in fight, flight, freeze or fawn. Over time, survival mode stops feeling like stress and starts feeling normal. This is why rest, self-care and talking it through often don’t touch carer