The Pain of Almost-Rejection: A Somatic Meditation for Rejection Sensitivity & RSD | Abi Beri

If a delayed text or a moment of silence can ruin your afternoon, your nervous system isn’t broken — its threat detector has been wound up high. The pain is real, even when the rejection isn’t. There is even a name for the mechanism behind it: neuroception, the body’s constant below-awareness scan for safety or threat.Guided by Abi Beri — Somatic Therapist and Integrative Practitioner (Dublin, Naas, Newbridge & online) — this somatic meditation explains, simply, why almost-rejection can hurt as much as actual rejection, why some nervous systems are wired to over-scan, and how rejection sensitivity (sometimes called RSD) shows up. It includes a 12-minute somatic practice to soothe a sensitive system in real time. For the sensitive ones, the ones who notice everything, and anyone whose system has learned to read silence as danger. Looking for a somatic therapist in Dublin, Naas, Newbridge or online from anywhere in Ireland or the world? More at somatictherapyireland.com and blissfulevolution.com.