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Stuck Not Broken — 367 episodes · page 2 of 4
Ultimate Guide to Healing Dorsal Vagal Shutdown of the Polyvagal Theory
the Stimulus Response Behavior Model is Missing Something: a Polyvagal Solution?
Would you take a ventral vagal magic pill?
What is Vagal Efficiency? (and how to get more of it)
Intimacy: Another Polyvagal Mixed State?
Is "Our Polyvagal World" Worth Buying? - a Book Review
Fawn and Appeasement: Actual Mixed States or Something Else?
Comply to Survive: Fawn and the Polyvagal Theory
Connect to Survive: Appeasement Replaces Stockholm Syndrome via Polyvagal Theory
Dr Stephen Porges: Polyvagal Theory Updates & Critiques (2023)
200. Time: the Uncomfortable Truth
BANGING on our window at night!? a Polyvagal Neuroception Story.
Silence: an Essential Mindfulness Ingredient
Are They Really a "Friend"? Healthy Boundaries & Levels of Friendship
Can't Sleep? The Stress and Insomnia Connection
How Feeling Stuck Trauma May Actually Help...
Navigating 3 Stages of Trauma Healing: a Polyvagal Perspective
Personal Growth: Allowed, Necessary and No Permission Needed!
Losing Access to Personal Boundaries and How to Strengthen Them
What is a Polyvagal Therapist and how can they help you?
Understanding Dorsal Vagal Shutdown: Numbness and Trauma
Mastering Panic Attacks: Coping vs Safety Grounding
Trauma Recovery: Trusting in Your Power to Self-Regulate
5 Emotional Impacts of Trauma
7 Easy Anxiety Management Skills to Use Today
Easy Beginning Meditation Tips for Busy People
How to Feel Your Feelings to Improve Emotional Processing
How to Give Yourself Permission to Feel Your Feelings
Emotional Normalization and How it Helps in Trauma Recovery
What Validation is and How it Connects to Trauma Recovery
5 Practical Tips for Managing Anxiety in Your Daily Life
How Positive Affirmations Might be Making Things WORSE
AI answered my questions about trauma recovery and shocked me.
How your thoughts are preventing your trauma recovery
3 Tips to Reduce Fear During Trauma Work
I was desperate & agreed to spend $9k
Reduce your shame, blame and judgment with the Polyvagal Theory
How Polyvagal Safety is different than coping with dysregulation
175. I'm a Therapist and I was Wrong About Trauma Recovery
What to do AFTER learning the Polyvagal Theory and Why
Happiness & the Polyvagal Theory: Sorry, there is NO magic key
How to Relieve Your Polyvagal Fight State
Release Trauma to Relax OR Relax to Release Trauma?
Why You Have Resistance to Polyvagal Ladder Climbing
Polyvagal Freeze, Self-Harm, Panic & Rage
Acting on Impulses and Trauma Releasing
Grief and the Polyvagal Theory
How to Deal With Anger & the Polyvagal Theory
How to Self Regulate Through Triggering Events?
Polyvagal Safety and How to Use It
Polyvagal Theory for Total Beginners
Is It Possible to Come Out of Polyvagal Shutdown
Pendulation in Grieving and Imagination as a Safety Anchor
Gently Allowing Emotion and Sensation
Coming Out of Flight/Fight
My Current Therapist is Not as Good
Bad Therapy - Non-Kink & Minimizing Suicidal Ideation
How does trauma connect to the Polyvagal Theory? / PVT101
Fawning and Distress Tolerance PVT101 Q&A
SSIEC: State Sensation Impulse Emotion Cognition Resource
Free Will, Accountability & Parenting Consultation
It's Just You & You Are Enough (p4)
It's Just You - Rebuttals (p3)
150. It's Just You - Supportive Responses (p2)
149. It's Just You - No Ego, No Shadow, No Parts, No...
Active & Passive Cues Compile and Context of Cues
Is Building Safety Anchors right for you?
Polyvagal Safety Cues and Swiss Design
Polyvagal Theory for Teens - Rehearsal Presentation
Shame, Time-Outs, Will Smith, Evolution & More - Open Office Hour
Why is a Trauma Survivor's Vagal Brake Compromised?
Factors in Why We Get Addicted to One Thing vs Another
Being Pulled in Different Directions
Acting Out vs Acting In
3 Years of SNB & My Next Steps
I've Tried Everything & I am Still Numb!
You're Thinking, Not Feeling
Doubt is a Normal Part of Change
Polyvagal Safety - Book Review
High Stress Jobs & the Vagal Brake
Safety Cue Dependency?
Why Therapy Has Ignored the Body
Why You Should Focus on Behavior, Not Toxicity
Intimacy After Childhood Sexual Abuse History
Isolation Keeps You Stuck
Parenting Without Models of Good Enough Parents
Your Stories Keep You Stuck
Bad Therapy - "Get Over It" and Absolutely Awful Advice
Bad Therapy: "I Really Needed Help!", Client Quote Book & more!
A Husband's Defensive State or Autism?
Can I Co-Regulate With Someone That Traumatized Me?
What It's Like to be a Therapist in Government Jobs
Definition
Behavior vs Biology / Polyvagal Misconceptions 3of3
Simile
Co-Regulation is not Just Support / Polyvagal Misconceptions 2of3
Metaphor
Freeze & Shutdown are Not the Same Thing / Polyvagal Misconceptions 1of3
Fierce Compassion from Parents
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