
The Neuroscience & Power of Safe Relationships with Dr. Stephen Porges - 428
Relationship Coaching School Podcast
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Relationships - The Relationship Between Oxytocin and Social Behavior
Sue Carter is a scientist who discovered the relationship between oxytocin and social behavior. The areas of the brainstem that regulate what I call the social engagement system with this mammalian, myelene vagus are bathed in receptors of oxytocin. So it enables immobilization without fear. And now if we want to float into your world of couples and relationship, what is the objective of a relationship? We'll use a pragmatic one and say to co-regulate and then we'll use a more illustrative one and that is to immobilize without fear.
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