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How Trauma Impacts Your Body
“If you’ve survived a traumatic incident, ignoring mental health treatment can negatively impact your body.”
Reciprocal influences between body and brain in the perception and expression of affect
A polyvagal perspective. Emotions, affect regulation, and interpersonal social behavior are psychological processes that…
Making the World Safe for our Children
Down-regulating Defence and Up-regulating Social Engagement to ‘Optimise’ the Human Experience
Love: an emergent property of the mammalian autonomic nervous system
The evolution of the autonomic nervous system provides an organizing principle to interpret the adaptive significance of mammalian affective processes…
Deb Dana: Befriending Your Nervous System (video)
How well do you know your nervous system? Deb Dana offers an introduction to the human nervous system, how Polyvagal Theory informs our understanding of the nervous system, and more.
