10% Happier with Dan Harris Reset Your Nervous System: Actionable Advice for Stress, Burnout, and Trauma | Linda Thai
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Sep 3, 2025 Linda Thai, a trauma therapist with expertise in brain-and body-based modalities, dives deep into resilience and healing. She explains the complexities of the nervous system and its role in managing stress and trauma. Listeners discover practical tools for resetting their nervous systems and identifying signs of stress, burnout, and trauma. Thai emphasizes the significance of community connections and mindfulness, while sharing techniques like breathwork and movement for emotional well-being. Her insights redefine what it means to heal and nurture oneself.
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Nervous System Is A Spectrum
- The nervous system has sympathetic and parasympathetic branches with spectra of adaptive responses.
- Ventral vagal (parasympathetic) supports social engagement while dorsal vagal supports immobilization.
No Good/Bad Nervous System
- Both sympathetic and parasympathetic branches contain helpful and harmful extremes.
- Healthy functioning is about appropriate responses to context, not simply 'good' or 'bad' systems.
Trauma Is A Failure To Return To Homeostasis
- Trauma can be 'too much' or 'too little' for too long and becomes embodied.
- Without resourcing for return to homeostasis, survival responses get stuck in body and personality.
