Wendy K. Laidlaw

Our bodies are always trying to communicate to us.

I don't know whether you want to say that's a subconscious thing or not.

For me, the subconscious lies in midbrain and reptilian brain, which kind of sit at the very back of the brain and go down the spinal cord.

It's the oldest part of the brain.

And that part of the brain, as you know, keeps all the heart pumping and the blood flowing and all the kind of stuff that goes on from a survival perspective.

Then in the midbrain, which, as you know, is one of the biggest brains, it's got the emotional brain.

There's a lot of stuff stored in there.

And sometimes there's a lot of stuff that hasn't been processed.

And sometimes we don't even know that it's not being processed.

But I'm kind of guessing that at this particular point, that there's probably a bit of stuff that needs to be processed.

But what I'm trying to say to you is you can't fast track this and you can't sort of

compartmentalize it and you can't sort of like put it on a conveyor belt invariably my experience by the time someone's reached this particular point of their journey there's a really frightened little girl inside and this is why we've got these little little illustrations being done

because I want you to kind of really think about the little you from birth to probably about two or three.

If you think that up to the age of two, you have no language, you're basically a sensory feeling being that is born into this sensory overload.

And if you're not held,

if maybe you were put straight into a plastic cot by the bedside, or maybe you were put into a plastic cot amongst other babies, I don't know what your early experiences were, but the chances are you didn't get what you needed as you were growing up, which created a kind of a thermostat in your nervous system

In fact, I read something the other day that said our our immune system is always circulating in our nervous system.

I kind of talked about the nervous system and immune system being like twin sisters.

If the nervous system is constantly on and high, then it impairs the immune system.

But the idea of the immune system, of course, is constantly in the nervous system.