Nervous System Regulation: Managing Stress and Anxiety
Stress, Anxiety and the Nervous System Stress is healthy! It’s a normal physiological response to a situation that involves change or challenge. The nervous system responds typically with a ‘fight’ or ‘flight’ response. We stand our ground, or we run away. In an ideal world we then go back to a calm state until the […]
Polyvagal Toning
Polyvagal toning is a set of protocols to calm down the vagus nerve and so helps to manage stress. The vagus nerve controls the autonomic nervous system which manages all thE involuntary processes in the body. Things like breathing, digesting, organ function heart rate etc. functions. It also manages stress responses, the fight flight and […]
NARM™
What is NARM™: The Neuro Affective Relational Model™. NARM was developed by the therapist Dr Laurence Heller. He had been studying various embodiment trauma therapy processes such as the Somatic Experiencing work of Peter Levine. He was aware that many of these models focused on shock trauma, usually experienced as an adult. Shock trauma is a […]
