• Polyvagal Theory helps you understand how your nervous system works, how trauma gets stuck in your body, why you can't just "think" you way out of trauma, and how you can find ways to heal trauma by targeting it in the body. Understanding this system will help you know why trauma gets stuck in the body, and you can become aware of these states and start practicing specific techniques to stay in a regulated state. This video includes visuals based on established research to clarify how polyvagal theory works, and how you can apply its concepts to your own life. This will help you release trauma from your body, recondition your body, brain, mind, and nervous system into a relaxed state, and help you understand what is going on inside of you.
Resources:
• I will add link to Vagus Nerve Stimulation video once it comes out in mid-October. Link: https://youtu.be/rSeVfmxIiao
• Polyvagal Theory and Hope in Healing from Childhood Trauma by Shirley Davis at the CPTSD Foundation discusses how the polyvagal theory is one of the most important keys to healing childhood trauma. This article was used in the video.
• Polyvagal Theory: An Approach to Understanding Trauma in Psychology Today by Robert T. Muller, PhD, contributed to the information that is in this video. This article helps you understand how trauma works in the nervous system via polyvagal theory.
• The Polyvagal Theory and Healing Complex PTSD in CPTSD Foundation, by Arielle Schwartz--one of the foremost authorities on polyvagal and trauma therapies--discusses how polyvagal theory can help you heal complex PTSD. I used this article in the video.
Books on Polyvagal Theory to Heal Trauma:
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk is a good foundation for polyvagal theory and trauma healing in the body.
• Anchored How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana and Stephen Porges
• The Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe by Stephen Porges
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