The Release Protocol: What to Do When You Freeze After You Finish.

A step-by-step practice for shipping work even when your body says “don’t.”

You’ve finished the work.

It’s sitting in your drafts, your desktop, your “almost ready” folder.

Every time you open it, your body tightens. You find something else to fix. Something else to check. Something else to delay.

This is finish-line freeze: the pattern where your nervous system treats release like a threat and locks you in revision mode indefinit…