Dr. Nicole LePera

That emotional center that's always scanning for danger, that's overreactive, constantly scanning for danger, right?

With a prefrontal cortex, right, that's not as online as we would like it to be.

And we quite literally in a way we become we are born wired for the threat that we might not even actually have physically experienced or may never experience in the environment that we're living in.

So kind of going back to the foundational place where change happens, we cannot...

Create, make, even think about, remember, even this conversation with maybe all the new tools I'll share with you now, unless our body is feeling safe.

So kind of back to those building in consistent check-ins, setting alerts on our phone, post-it notes, kind of connecting this new check-in habit with something you already do every day, brushing your teeth, drinking coffee.

Building those moments of refocusing our attention to our body's signals of stress are so foundationally important for two reasons.

So that A, we can create some new lifestyle habits, generally speaking, right?

Noticing what time we go to bed, what time we wake up, how rested we feel, how do we feel after we eat certain foods, obviously trying to give our body the foods, the energy, the nutrients that it needs, right?

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tuning in in the moment as my breath is starting to elevate or quicken, as my muscles are starting to tense, knowing that my body will get to the point of no return, as I call it, where it's too stressed.

It's going to rely on old choices, old habits, I should say, not being able to make new choices.

And in those moments, as we notice, maybe our breath is getting faster and our voice is getting faster and louder, beginning to

Slow all that down, right?

Beginning to maybe refocus on all of the support that is around us, our feet on the floor, my back against this chair, maybe even just tuning into, right?

As we kind of acknowledge, I go back in time, I become a little kid, tuning into the current environment, right?

Doing the quick like naming of neutral things in our environment to remind us that I'm here, I'm present, and even maybe whispering to ourself, I'm safe.