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You can’t tell people to calm down. Give the arousal a better job.

October 14, 2026 Author: brendonbclark Category: General

I am ashamed to admit I have, more than once, committed the egregious social, intimate relationship, workplace relationship, and parental sin, of telling someone in full sympathetic nervous system arousal, that they should just calm down. You may throw tomatoes, and possibly soft apples, now. It is possibly the least…

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