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Jan. 8, 2026

When Calm Is Over-Performance: Adaptive Dissociation, Over-Resourcing, and the Misidentification of Regulation

In this episode of The Light Inside, host Jeffrey Besecker delves into the concept of containment and its role in emotional regulation with breathwork facilitator D' Layne Benson. Together, they explore how emotional bypassing and avoidance can hinder our ability to process and integrate experiences, leading to a disconnection from vital signals.