Trauma & Survival Physiology

Nervous system education, polyvagal theory, ACE study

“The Descending Line” and its importance for reducing our stress levels and improving our well-being (and the importance of spontaneous breath and restoring order to our internal milieu)

2024-04-26T22:37:12-07:00Movement. Awareness., Nervous System Resiliency, Trauma & Survival Physiology, Unabriged Musings: Anecdotes from personal life|

"Habitual repression of emotion leaves a person in a situation of chronic stress, and chronic stress creates an unnatural biochemical milieu in the body, [ ], Disease , in other words, is not a simple result of some external attack but develops in a vulnerable host [...]

Near-death experiences (NDE’s), anesthesia states, surgical procedures: Potential medical problems that can follow and how to heal: A Skype Client from Tennessee Writes of Her Improvements

2024-04-26T22:40:28-07:00Nervous System Resiliency, Trauma & Survival Physiology|

Click here to re-tweet "Near-death experiences (NDE's), anesthesia states, surgical procedures: Potential medical problems that can follow and how to heal: A Skype Client from Tennessee Writes of Her Improvements" // I just received this LOVELY letter (see below where it says "Julianne's Letter") from a client way back [...]

Why Going into Your Automatic Freeze Response (aka: Dorsal Branch of Your Parasympathetic Nervous System, or Rest-Digest Mode) can Save Your Skin. Lessons from the Wild

2024-04-26T22:48:58-07:00Nervous System Resiliency, Trauma & Survival Physiology|

Click here to re-tweet 'why going into your automatic freeze response can save your skin. Lessons from the wild. My good colleague-friend Anthony 'Twig' Wheeler told me about this video clip a few days back. (thanks Twig!, and thanks to Neal Winbald for having them on his site). We [...]

Lessons from a Stubbed Toe: “Accident-Trauma-First Aid”

2024-04-26T22:57:30-07:00Irene's Musings, Nervous System Resiliency, Trauma & Survival Physiology, Unabriged Musings: Anecdotes from personal life|

Stubbing my toe in Berkeley I was walking quite fast through the residential area of Berkeley, California, this past October. I was wearing my open-toed Birkenstock sandals when BAM! “Ouch, #!^*…Oh, that REALLY hurts...” An uneven slab of sidewalk had put an abrupt stop to the forward motion of my second toe [...]

Dr. Peter Levine, the founder of Somatic Experiencing explains how the human system can heal and self-regulate from traumatic events.

2024-04-26T23:19:26-07:00Live Events, Nervous System Resiliency, Trauma & Survival Physiology|

Click here to re-tweet "Dr. Peter Levine, the founder of Somatic Experiencing explains how the human system can heal and self-regulate from traumatic events." Why Do We Humans Get "Stuck" in our Traumatic Events While Animals in the Wild Don't? There is much to be learned from our fuzzy [...]

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