#188: The Nervous System Explained with Sarah...

In this episode I drop the structure and speak directly to the part of you that knows you’ve forgotten who you are. I reflect on the grief that comes with waking up to the ways you’ve abandoned yourself, shaped your life around survival patterns, and lost touch with your truth ju ...  Show more

In this episode I challenge you to take radical responsibility for what you consume and recognize how it’s shaping your thoughts, your emotions, and ultimately your entire life. I unpack how constant exposure to fear, division, and negativity is dysregulating your nervous system ...  Show more

In today's episode, I'm speaking with Sarah Baldwin - a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Trauma Coach who is trained in Polyvagal interventions and is on the training team at the Polyvagal Institute. Sarah specialises in somatic trauma healing, attachment work, ...

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Practical tools for regulating your nervous system in stressful times.  

We don't think about it this way, but as we move through the day, the various moods we inhabit — excitement, engagement, aggression, fear, dejection — they're all dictated by, or correlated with, our nervous system, or to be specific, our autonomic nervous system. The guest fo ...

Is it possible to learn to spot which state your nervous system is in and move from suboptimal states to much better ones? The subject of how to work with your own nervous system is called Polyvagal Theory and today's guests Deb Dana & Kaira Jewel Lingo will give us a primer o ...