{"id":7079,"date":"2026-01-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brujaschool.com\/?p=7079"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:11:21","slug":"do-you-have-emotional-autoimmune-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brujaschool.com\/es\/do-you-have-emotional-autoimmune-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you have Emotional Autoimmune Disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_flex_section\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_24_24 et_flex_column_24_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>I was having coffee with a friend the other day, and she said something that hit me right in the gut because I\u2019ve heard it a thousand times from clients, from loved ones, and from my own head.<\/p>\n<p>She said,<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>\u201cI just always think I\u2019m not good enough. That things are going to fall apart. That nothing will work out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not as a passing worry. Not even as a flavor of pessimism. More like a terrorist, a voice in her head telling her things she would never dare say to another human being. Not to a friend. Not to a child. Not even to a stranger she didn\u2019t like.<\/p>\n<p>Only to herself.<\/p>\n<p>And I thought:<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>this is a psychological autoimmune disease.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just like the body sometimes turns against itself for reasons we can\u2019t fully see,<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>sometimes the mind turns inward and attacks its own dignity, its own brilliance, its own basic worth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Almost everyone I know has experienced some version of this. Chronic. Episodic. Loud. Quiet. It\u2019s part of the human condition.<\/p>\n<p>(\u2026Except maybe people like Elon Musk or Donald Trump, who I\u2019m convinced do not suffer from emotional autoimmune responses because you actually need a functioning conscience to have one. Complete fucking psychopaths don\u2019t tend to have this particular issue.)<\/p>\n<p>But the rest of us, those of us who are<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>trying<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>to be good humans in a collapsing world, we get hit with this stuff all the time.<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s why it matters:<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re fighting an internal war against yourself, when your emotional health is in a constant state of flare-up, you don\u2019t have the energy to fight the real battles: the ones in your life, in your relationships, in your community, in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>So tending to your emotional ecosystem isn\u2019t just \u201cself-care.\u201d<\/span><\/strong>\u200b<br \/>It\u2019s strategic readiness.<br \/>It\u2019s spiritual hygiene.<br \/>It\u2019s political resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Because one way we combat the loud, destructive, power-hoarding forces in this world is by keeping ourselves well. Well enough to stay awake, to take action, to build something better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And do you know the most powerful antidote I know to emotional autoimmune attacks?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Connection.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I could sit every person down who\u2019s spiraling in self-terrorizing thoughts and ask them to say out loud what they\u2019re telling themselves privately, a few things almost always happen:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Reality checks in real-time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once you say it out loud, you hear how untrue, or at least how distorted, it is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. New perspectives open.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even if some part of what you\u2019re feeling has truth in it, there are a million other ways to interpret it, ways that don\u2019t require you to annihilate yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. You stop fighting alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because when you\u2019re in it, you can rarely pull yourself out just by thinking harder. You need other humans. That\u2019s a feature, not a bug, of being human. We are social beings.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>So sharing what\u2019s happening in your inner world is not just a personal act of wellness, it\u2019s a collective survival strategy.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a refusal to let the forces inside you (or the forces outside you) turn you against yourself.<br \/>It\u2019s a political act.<br \/>A liberation act.<\/p>\n<p>A reminder that your life is worth defending from both the inner and outer monsters.<\/p>\n<p>Take care of your emotional ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>We need you well enough to fight for your life, and for all of ours.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_24_24 et_flex_column_24_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_1 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@sekatsky?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">\u041c\u0438\u0445\u0430\u0438\u043b \u0421\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0446\u043a\u0438\u0439<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/person-in-black-long-sleeve-shirt-OwR9cyMNe4c?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-love","category-magic","category-personal-growth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Do you have Emotional Autoimmune Disease? 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