EP 609: Fruit Salad > Smoothie + The 4 Stages of Stress

I hope you are meeting this moment with kindness, acceptance, curiosity, and compassion. And I want you to know that at any moment you have the opportunity to do so. In today’s first segment, I talk more about the two biological imperatives of Attachment and Authenticity. Specifically, I discuss how these two drives can come into conflict when we enter romantic relationships. As happens with children sometimes, we sacrifice the authenticity for the connection we need so desperately. When this happens, as Dan Siegel says, our relationship becomes more like a smoothie rather than the more healthy and integrated fruit salad it could be. In the second segment, I talk about how this all applies to stress. Particularly, I discuss the vagus nerve and Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal theory. It turns out that in order to achieve the connection and authenticity we really need throughout our lives, we must first bring our nervous system to what Dr Porges calls the Social Engagement mode of our nervous system. Fortunately, mindfulness and compassion will promote parasympathetic nervous system activation while also increasing your vagal tone and making the process more optimized and efficient! Enjoy! If you’d like to discuss this further, there is an amazing opportunity before you. By clicking the link below, you are claiming the opportunity to learn one or two of the vital practices I discuss in my videos. And you are also claiming the opportunity to know whether a coaching relationship might be right for you. Best of all, this session is presented free of charge to you. So you really have nothing to lose. Click here to change your life with me: https://calendly.com/artburns/45-min-coaching-session