Dr. Stephen Porges

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THE ED MYLETT SHOW · How to Rewire Your Body's Response to Stress, Trauma & Anxiety Feat. Dr. Stephen Porges · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

So in your world, you're going to be talking about trying harder.

There's at a point where trying harder is actually destructive.

That's a good segue because that's the physiological state that does not have flexibility because it's roots.

When you become, in a sense, sympathetically dominant, you're more in a panic or fight-flight or you're angry at yourself or angry at other people.

You lose your ability to have flexibility and you lose your awareness of others as well.

So you're not a good social partner either.

There's a couple things here.

We're not going to dismiss experience, and we're not going to dismiss learning or adaptive or conditioning.

But we're really going to put something else into it, the ability to be aware of what your body is doing.

So, in a sense, we're not saying that if your body gets retuned, because you lived in a threatening environment as a child that you're going to be reactive.

We're going to acknowledge that you may be more reactive, but we're going to give you kind of a instruction set of how to navigate with that body.

So you follow where I'm going.

It's not like saying, oh, because you have that body, of course, you're going to behave that way.

We're saying, of course, your reactions may be that way, but that's not destiny.

Undone in part through what is really kind of a popular construct now.

and that is body awareness becoming more embodied so this whole movement in psychotherapy towards somatic therapies is really about being more embodied or in a sense feeling your own body okay let's let's go back a little bit for everybody here because everybody what we're doing now is i think for the majority of you i'm introducing you to a new understanding of yourself and

I would not.

I would not go there.

I mean, because you start stepping into the messy stuff, okay?

Because you create a either-or, a binary system, when in reality, the system that we live with, that we inherit, is a system that has many faces, many aspects to it.

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