Hypervigilance doesn’t clock off when you do. It runs on your days off, in restaurants, at your kids’ sport, in your own bed. You’re not broken. You’re just still on. Here’s one thing that genuinely helps: tell your nervous system the environment is safe through your senses, not your thoughts. Slow your breathing. Feel the chair under you. Look around the room and name five things you can see. It sounds simple because it is, and it works because it speaks the language your body actually understa