How to Write Co-Regulation in Romance
A Craft Guide to Nervous System Safety on the Page A man is standing at my counter, and his voice has climbed an octave in the last ninety seconds. I don’t raise mine to match him. I slow down. I drop half a register. I say his name once, quietly, and wait. Somewhere around the fourth exchange, his shoulders come down an inch. That’s co-regulation: one nervous system lending its steadiness to another until the…
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