You're listening to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience relationships

and where you'll gain the guidance, knowledge and practical tools to overcome insecurity and build healthy, thriving relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach Stephanie Rigg,

and I'm really glad you're here.

Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment.

In today's episode, we are talking about two simple principles

to build a healthy, resilient, adaptable nervous

system. So if you've been around here for a while, you'd know that understanding and working

with the body and the nervous system is absolutely essential to my work, to my understanding

of how we move through relationships relationships and also how we heal and

develop more sturdiness and security within ourselves and within our relationships. So this is

really foundational. It is an absolute building block. And, you know, I've said it before many

times, and I'll say it again now, for me, developing an understanding

of how my nervous system worked and really learning the language of my nervous system,

developing a level of literacy and fluency around working with my body and really

understanding the way my body works and its role in everything, emotions, perceptions, thoughts,

beliefs. It is incredibly empowering because all of a sudden these experiences that we can have that

can feel really overwhelming start to make sense. And not only can we make sense of them,

but we can actually shift gears. We can consciously work with our system and feel like

we're in the driver seat of our experience rather than feeling like a passenger and all of these

things are happening to us. And that experience of stepping into more agency is nothing short of

life-changing. And I don't think that's an exaggeration in the slightest. So I'm going to be sharing in today's episode two really simple principles that guide everything

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