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Rachel HardyHolistic Mind-Body-Soul Rewiring for Optimal Health and Spiritual Connection

How the Nervous System Works Part 2: How Trauma Affects the Body

January 2, 2020 0Comments

Let's talk about how trauma affects the body. We know that in a healthy nervous system, we move easily between the three states of sympathetic, slow parasympathetic (ventral vagal), and quick shutdown (dorsal vagal). In a nervous system that has undergone trauma (or overloads of stress), the nervous system can become…

How the Nervous System Works Part 1: The Branches of the Autonomic Nervous System

October 5, 2019 0Comments

In this post, we'll take a look at how the Nervous System works, and how understanding it can be helpful to our health, wellness, and optimal functioning. Photo: Shutterstock The Autonomic Nervous System is divided into two branches. You may be familiar with the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Branches of the autonomic nervous…