#247: How to Create a Lasting, Healthy Relationship with Dr. Stan Tatkin
The Mark Groves Podcast
What Happens Neurologically When You Touch the Toe?
When we are insecure or threatened, we're expressing in our brains, cortical steroids and cortical steroids change our brains immediately. They make us less gracious, more self-interested, less willing to put ourselves in the other person's shoes. When we go from this place where we've always done defensiveness or whatever the cycle is, the anxious dance, the avoidance dance, then one night I decide I'm going to do the thing I've never done - that sounds like terror at first. But once we put that principle, it keeps us from doing something that's pennywise, pound-fouish. You can't say no if I offer the olive branch because you're bound by
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