Episode 3: Understanding The Effects Of Trauma And Stress On The Nervous System

In this episode, we dive into: the breakdown of the nervous system why down-regulating the nervous system is so important how stress and trauma affect the different systems in your body how stress and trauma can affect all aspects of your daily life from sleep to concentration exploring beyond the original fight-or-flight response (fight, flight, freeze, flop, fawn) and how you are doing this in your everyday life what is the vagus nerve? how do you know you have a weak vagal tone how to easily stimulate the vagus nerve Once you listened to the podcast, I invite you to put pen to paper and reflect on the following: What signs of stress or weak vagal tone are you experiencing currently? What would you feel like if you no longer experienced that? What would that extra energy open up for you?