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How the Nervous System Works Part 2: How Trauma Affects the Body
ByRachel Hardy January 2, 2020March 10, 2023

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 fixated in one or…

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How the Nervous System Works Part 1: The Branches of the Autonomic Nervous System
ByRachel Hardy October 5, 2019March 10, 2023

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. The Autonomic Nervous System is divided into two branches. You may be familiar with the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Branches of the autonomic nervous system. The Sympathetic Nervous System…

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