Origins
From egress, meaning exit or departure, adapted into an abstract form to describe a patterned internal response rather than a physical act.
Meaning
Egressa is the reflexive moment when discomfort is treated as an emergency that must be exited immediately. Any rise in unease triggers an automatic move toward relief, often before the discomfort has fully registered. The body learns this shortcut quickly; feel something, erase it. What feels like self-protection slowly becomes a smaller life, where sensations are cut short before they can teach, deepen, or pass on their own.
Usage
Looking back, it wasn’t the pain itself that drove us. It was Egressa, the need to leave the moment the second it became uncomfortable.