A Polyvagal Exploration of the Impact of Choice to the Experience of Safety

A women's autonomic nervous system is at the heart of daily living powerfully shaping their experiences of safety and influencing their capacity for connection. What begins with their biology becomes the story that each day. Polyvagal Theory provides a guide to the autonomic circuits that underlie behaviours and beliefs and an understanding of the body to brain pathways that give birth to stories of safety and survival especially within trauma. Through this science of connection, we have a new understanding of the ways traumatic experience shapes the nervous system and the pathways that lead to healing.      

Polyvagal Theory offers us a roadmap to navigate this unfamiliar territory.  Anchored in the safety of a regulated nervous system, pathways of connection come alive, and we can travel those pathways in service of healing. In this recording, we will use the organizing principles of hierarchy, neuroception, and co-regulation to guide our exploration and answer the essential question when one has been affected by trauma, “What does the nervous system need in this moment to find safety in connection?”