Dr. Stephen Porges

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353 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Apr

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Or do you get a visceral feeling?

So your nervous system goes into a state of defense or threat because you'll have associations.

It's not merely that you had associations.

We are wired to react to certain types of sounds and movements around us.

The interesting part of trauma is that it starts off pre-wired, but it gets to a point of being retuned.

So let's talk about trauma.

Like, let's say someone is raped or they're in a hospital and they get a, you know, medical trauma.

The important thing is what happens next.

Are they in the arms of safe, loving people?

Are they comforted or are they interrogated?

So in a sense, we are a society that thinks of trauma as, or let's say rape, as we need to find out the perpetrator and we need retribution.

And I think there's been a wonderful example of with the, I call it the Epstein's women, Epstein's women, because they didn't want retribution.

They wanted their own voice back.

Right.

And so what happens is that the body basically goes into what I call the deep abyss through withdrawal.

And the way you get the body out of that is through safe, loving engagement.

Melodic voices, friendly faces, gestures, but above all, respect for the vulnerability of the other.

And the point is you have a real accessibility to you.

I can feel it.

I can see it.

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