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Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction
1:10: A brief overview of Polyvagal Theory (PVT)
5:20: Ventral, sympathetic, and dorsal vagal states
12:05: Relating PVT to trauma, and processing cognitively vs. in the body
19:30: Creating enough safety and co-regulation for healing work
23:30: What helps people gain awareness, safety, and regulation
27:15: Contextualizing a freeze response both psychologically and medically
30:45: Distinguishing feeling safe vs. being safe
34:10: Where to start when you don’t have a secure base in another person
37:20: How our physiology has evolved to detect psychosocial cues
39:20: How healing practices change our perception of the world
41:35: The calming effect of slow exhalation and top-down visualization
43:05: Other tools to calm the nervous system, and the need for social nourishment
47:05: Recap
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