5 Signs of Nervous System Healing (That Don't Feel Like Healing!) | Dr Jacob Ambrose
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What does “healing your nervous system” actually mean?
With ADHD in autism, they've been performing for the most part of their life. People say, wow, you are actually able to do something that we find worthy in our eyes. The sad thing that's happening behind the scenes is that that same individual is actually not being loved for who they are, but for what they can do.
What would you say to someone who has spent their whole life believing that they're too sensitive, emotional, lazy, or
Simply too much. It was always your environment that wounded you. An environment that didn't understand that these gifts that you've had were things that were always meant to be blossoming into the world. A lot of people with ADHD can feel like they're too much. You were sold that story before you even knew it was true. If your whole life has been
powered by
fear, what replaces it? That is a really good connection to the nervous system. It is all about either.
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That's a fantastic question because I think a lot of people get confused when they hear about nervous system regulation. They think, does that just mean being calm? Um, and it's not quite just being calm. It's a little bit about Finding the correct prediction model for how to respond to reality. So so I'll be a little more specific about that. If if you're next to a bear and you feel calm, that is a big problem. You know, but i if you're trying to uh talk to someone on a date and you wanna feel calm but you feel extremely nervous, that's also a problem. So nervous system regulation is basically Finding a way to have your natural reaction to the world respond in an effective way. Um, and that that's typically what people get confused.
They think nervous system regulation means calm when in reality it means responding effectively to reality.
Wow. Okay. So this is super interesting. And if someone's listening and they're thinking, Do I have a regulated nervous system or not? Like what does a dysregulated nervous system look like in reality?
Great, great question. Yeah. Um, so so when looking at the nervous system, you can really look at it into two separate poles. You have the um sympathetic nervous system, which is all about dysregulated, you're all you're very activated in a way. You feel as though you your heart's racing, you're nervous. But when you look at the parasympathetic nervous system, that's all about rest and digest. So if you're asking what does it look like when somebody has a dysregulated nervous system? their nervous system is basically in a state of go when it needs to rest and stop. And it's feeling as though it needs to um, you know, slow down when it needs to speed up. And a lot of people run into that issue when they're dysregulated in social situations, when it comes to um
relationships when it comes to work. So so trying to find that balance really looks like trying to recreate experiences. Because one of the things that I think helps clients the most when they're trying to navigate their nervous system is learning that the nervous system is something that responds based on experiences. Um we have two parts of the brain. We have the rational brain that's all about the present moment. It's kinda like this whiteboard in our head that we use to manipulate information, go about our day. But we also have this very reptilian side that's connected to the nervous system. And that's the part of us that learns based on experience. If if I touch a hot stove And I learned that the hot stove is is not going to feel good when I touch it, you're going to physiologically feel unwell as your hand approaches it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does “healing your nervous system” actually mean?
0:00–4:32
2
How can you tell if your nervous system is dysregulated?
4:32–10:57
3
Why does healing often feel worse before it feels better?
10:57–18:53
4
What are the early warning signs of a dysregulated nervous system?
18:53–26:20
5
How does hyper‑vigilance differ from healthy perception?
26:20–33:50
6
What replaces fear when you start to feel safe and healed?
33:50–41:32
7
How can you differentiate healthy emotional processing from getting worse during healing?
41:32–49:08
8
What’s the difference between restorative solitude and unhealthy isolation?
49:08–50:36
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