Deb Dana

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 311: Deb Dana on Befriending Our Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory · 15 Nov 2022 podcast

And if I'm in dorsal, that other survival state, you know, where I'm in collapse, shutdown, disconnection, the brain makes up a story that says it's hopeless.

Don't even bother, right?

And what's interesting to remember is that nothing in the experience is different.

The experience stays exactly the same.

It's my nervous system state that brings these different stories, behaviors, beliefs, feelings to life, right?

So when I'm working with people, what I like to say is I can't change what happened to you.

And I can't necessarily change what's happening now, but I can change your relationship with it because I can help you find the state of regulation that opens a different story up.

And I think that's really, again, some of the powerful learning we have from this theory.

Yeah, that's a great question.

I think we come into the world perhaps with sensitivities.

But what the research tells us that our nervous system is shaped by our lived experience.

So that could be a nature nurture.

There's a lot of research that tells us that we can reshape our system.

And that's really why I'm a therapist, to help people reshape their systems.

Why I want to bring this to the world, because I want people to know you're not locked into

the patterns of protection that you're experiencing right now.

You can build patterns of connection and the world can feel different, can look different for you.

For kids who have more sensitive nervous systems,

Whether it's the neurodiverse community or the population I worked with were kids who grew up in dangerous family systems, dangerous worlds, abusive experiences, and their systems are shaped by those experiences as well.

And the lovely thing is that over time, we reshape ourselves.

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