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How to Permit Yourself to Feel Your Feelings
Learn how to give yourself permission and reduce the intensity of your negative emotions.
Emotional Normalization and How it Helps in Trauma Recovery
Learn about emotional normalization and trauma recovery. Discover top-down self-regulation techniques and the power of normalizing yourself.
What Validation Is and How it Helps in Trauma Recovery
Validation is the first cognitive self-regulation opener. Doing this aligns your thoughts with your state.
Anger and Polyvagal Theory: How you are stuck in a fight state
Learn how people can get stuck in defensive states, specifically the fight state of the Polyvagal Theory.
5 Practical Tips for Managing Anxiety in Your Daily Life
Learn practical tips for managing anxiety in your daily life with these 5 effective strategies. Discover ways to reduce stress, calm your...
The Slow and Steady Path to Healing: How to Come Out of Shutdown and Reconnect After Trauma
If you're living in trauma, you may be familiar with shutdown. This is a Polyvagal state where you feel immobilized and disconnected...
The Polyvagal Theory: Understanding the 3 Neural Circuits that Shape our Behavior
Learn about the Polyvagal Theory and its three neural circuits that support different types of behavior. Stephen Porges interview from Psych
Trauma recovery: the Normal & Non-linear process of change
Trauma can leave a deep impact on an individual's mental and emotional well-being. The effects of trauma can manifest in various ways,...
The Difference Between Coping and Anchoring for Trauma Recovery
Discover the difference between being grounded in your safety state versus just reducing your defensive state and how to recognize actual...
Unstuck: Understanding Trauma & the Autonomic Nervous System
What does it mean to be "unstuck"? And what is the relevance to understanding trauma and the autonomic nervous system? I'll cover what it...
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