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

And what it does, all the aspects are, quote, adaptive.

There is no bad state.

And when we start getting into things, we start saying, I got to get out of that.

as opposed to saying why is my body in a defensive state now okay is it fair to say that the sympathetic state is considered the defensive state or or no let's reframe it it's fair to say that i recruit my sympathetic nervous system when i am in states of defense but when i play when i enjoy myself and i'm moving like when kids play their faces are smiling that's not a defensive state that's play that's

acting in a reciprocal way is co-regulation.

So it's the difference when athletes lose the ability to, quote, play because they're no longer enjoying the interaction.

They're missing the co-regulation.

So the concept of playing with someone is like dancing with someone.

You move, they move.

And it's that reciprocity that our nervous system loves.

Well, what most people think is it's an event.

Get over it.

As opposed to it's an event that is so powerful to your nervous system that is a life threat that gets a hardened imprint in your nervous system and your body just won't give up on it because it was so threatening.

It says you can make the mistake and think everyone is threatening, but you won't get hurt.

So, in a sense, think about a fail-safe system that says you hit my threshold and now I'm really porous and I'm not going to allow my body to be in close proximity with anyone.

And the adaptive response for many people with trauma histories is they either totally withdraw, so they are not in any contact with others,

or they become numb to their own bodily feelings.

And that's probably the more prevalent one where people lose their own bodily feelings.

you're at dinner with a friend and at the table behind you, some male voice very powerfully starts yelling at someone.

Okay, how are you enjoying your meal with that?

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