How Your Body and Brain Heal
The science behind stress, safety, and change.
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Your Nervous System
Understanding the biological wiring that controls how you feel, connect, and respond to the world around you. The Vagus Nerve, Polyvagal Theory, The Social Engagement System.
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Your Brain Under Stress
How your brain detects threats, sounds the alarm, and sometimes takes over before you can think, and why that's actually intelligent design. The Amygdala, The Freeze Response, Window of Tolerance.
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Your Body's Built-In Healing Tools
Your body already has powerful mechanisms for calming down, recovering from stress, and restoring balance. Breathing & Vagal Tone, Completing the Stress Cycle, The Therapeutic Alliance.
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Your Brain's Capacity to Change
Your brain is not fixed. Neuroplasticity, Mirror Neurons.
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