Affect Circuit Reset
Feeling emotionally overwhelmed or stuck in patterns that no longer serve you? The Affect Circuit Reset is here to help you release emotional tension, break free from old habits, and reconnect with your inner sense of calm. Whether you’re seeking clarity, emotional healing, or a deeper sense of peace, this process is designed to meet you where you are. You’ll learn how to regulate your nervous system, gain tools to respond rather than react, and feel more centered, empowered, and at ease in your daily life. If you’re ready to feel lighter, clearer, and more in control of your emotions—this is your next step.
Affect Circuit Reset
Rewiring Emotional Energy Through Sacred Awareness
At Sacred Counseling, we honor the truth that your body remembers what your mind may try to forget. The emotional residue of past experiences — especially those that felt overwhelming, unsafe, or unresolved — gets stored in the nervous system. These become well-worn neurologically wired pathways that keep your system on high alert, even when the threat is long gone.
The Affect Circuit Reset created by Sandra Paulsen and Katie O'Shea is the intentional, trauma-informed process of gently unraveling the crossed wires of our “emotional circuit board” to prevent overload and softly resetting those circuits to remove excess energy from being experienced and expressed in our emotions. Through sacred presence, we can guide you through this process, witness your brain rewire and teach you about what is happening in this gentle journey in real time.
What Is It?
Affective circuits are innate to every human, the emotional wiring that creates our emotional experiences. When those circuits inevitably get crossed through life experiences, we end up with a buzz or charge in our nervous system. This surge can create unnecessary misdiagnosis of life experiences and an unhelpful seeking of the wrong antidote which keeps you trapped in survival mode.
Resetting these circuits is about reconnecting your body to truth, to peace, and to possibility.
Sacred Counseling Approach to Affect Circuit Reset:
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1.Naming Without Judgment
We create space to Have emotions without Being those emotions by stepping away from the feeling state into the witnessing space to see what emotions “look like”.
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2.Taming Through Untangling
With grounded presence and educational structure, we learn to untangle the crossed emotional wires, bringing them back to the foundational circuit board at the base of the brain.
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3. Draining the Tension of mind, heart and body.
Through a soft reset of your brain’s emotional circuit board, your nervous system learns it’s finally safe to feel — and to respond, no longer captive to old patterns of reactivity.