I appreciate how Polyvagal Theory brings us into relationship with our nervous system.

Our nervous systems learn a language based on our early environments. This impacts and predicts how we are affected by the world and other people, how we form attachments, and how much resiliency is available to us. In this way our body is the elephant – the element of our system that remembers most accurately. It is also the cheetah – the place that moves with swift efficiency when we tap in. I work in the body through the nervous system. As we learn to listen and “dialogue” from this place, our brains become an incredible tool, rather than the source of repeated struggles, criticism, and the place we get stuck.

Through understanding our flexible nervous systems we can learn how to

• Tolerate and manage stress (appropriate access to fight, flight, freeze or fawn)
• Rest
• Co-regulate with loved ones to improve connection, communication, and conflict
• Create the conditions for healing trauma
• Access ability to change behaviors with greater ease
• Increase sense of autonomy