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ERP 345: How Embodiment Helps Regulate The Nervous System — An Interview With GS Youngblood

Empowered Relationship Podcast: Your Relationship Resource And Guide

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Expanding the Window of Tolerance

As we expand if many people may have heard of the expanding the window of tolerance right using the polyvatal language that there's more space that allows us to remain in contact because when we do get dysregulated either shut down or activated too much then we are no longer really present. When we're in that activated state we're going to use our normal tendencies to protect or protest and that's where the prefrontal cortex goes offline which is what you're describing here. It feels good when we can notice that and speak that we feel more mature we feel more powerful, as we both know it always goes a lot better when we do that.

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