When Receiving Feels Risky

Giving your nervous system time to trust what your soul asked for.

Something I am learning in real time is that receiving good things is not always easy. It sounds simple, and it should feel natural. Like something we should already know how to do right? But for some of us…not quite.

When your nervous system is shaped by survival, your body may not always recognize or embrace good things as safe.

Sometimes love enters your life, and your chest tightens instead of opening up to it.
Sometimes financial blessings and opportunities for stability appear, and your mind assumes they will vanish.
Sometimes softness feels suspicious.
Sometimes kindness feels insincere.
Sometimes receiving feels like a risk.

But it’s not because you are broken. It’s because it’s true.

Your body might’ve learned how to adapt to environments that didn’t always support your emotional safety. Your past could’ve taught you that peace comes with a cost. Your nervous system might be holding on to old patterns even when your soul is ready for new ones.

So when something good arrives, you might feel tempted to pull away.

You might start waiting for and expecting the fallout. 
You might feel the urge to self-sabotage because uncertainty feels easier than hope. You might tell yourself, "This is too good to be true."

But here is what I want you to know—what I’m learning right now, in this moment as I’m typing this out.

Sometimes your job is simply to sit through the reset.

To breathe through the part where your body does not yet trust what your spirit has called in. To let yourself feel uncomfortable, not because the blessing is wrong, but because your nervous system is adjusting to a new reality. To recognize that certain triggers, delays, and detours may not lead to the same destination.

Receiving is a practice. 
Receiving is a retraining. 
Receiving is a quiet act of courage…or maybe sometimes it’s loud, messy, and full of tears, snot, and complaints.

EITHER WAY—give yourself time to learn that you are allowed to be held. Give yourself room to know that you can receive something different, something better, and something true. Even if you do not yet know how it will unfold. Even if it feels unfamiliar or uncomfortable at first. Even if every part of you says “run.”

Let the good stay long enough for your body to realize it is safe.

You deserve the kind of life that does not make your nervous system brace for impact. 
You deserve to expand into what is meant for you. 
You deserve to receive without fear.

And that begins with not pushing away what is finally trying to reach you.💛