You have the ability to experience growth, ease, pleasure, and vibrancy in your daily life.  Together, we will reinforce your biology and nervous system's naturally arising support and resources available moment-to-moment.  Over time with these exercises, your body and mind will be able to process and release stress effortlessly and you will enjoy healthy human pleasure more and more often. 

Exercise 9: Trauma and Polyvagal Education

"There is an epidemic of personal and social issues including addiction, chronic disease, anxiety, depression, PTSD and more whose roots can all be traced to trauma, adverse childhood experiences, chronic stress, and ultimately nervous system dysregulation. In the last number of years there has been groundbreaking research in neuroscience that has fundamentally changed our understanding of how trauma can impact individuals psychologically, physiologically, emotionally, and socially. From this, several new and highly effective treatment modalities have been developed at the clinical level to build resilience and support the healing of individuals struggling with chronic symptoms resulting from unresolved trauma."  - The Trauma Foundation

Reflection Prompts:

1. Refer back to timestamp [7:30], which of these activities do you enjoy the most? Can you imagine a way to prioritize one of these activities this week?  
2.  Refer to time stamp [0:54] describe the way you feel and experience the world when you are in the various states of 2(a)"Safe", 
2(b)"Unsafe and Mobilized "state,
2(c)  "Unsafe and Immobilized,"
2(d)"Safe and Mobilized,"
2(e) "Safe and Immobilized" 
3. Refer to timestamp [2:19-3:00], have you ever experienced something similar? Reflect on how you have historically responded to the the internal alarm bells. 
 
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