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…
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