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You're listening to Insights at the Edge.

Today, my guest is Deborah Dana.

Deb is a clinician and consultant, specializing and working with complex trauma,

and is the coordinator of the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium.

Deb's work at the Kinsey Institute is focused on using the lens of polyvacal theory to understand and resolve the impact of trauma and create ways of working that honor the

role of the autonomic nervous system.

Which sounds true, Deb has created a new audio program called befriending your nervous

system, looking through the lens of polyvagal theory.

Deb is gifted at being a translator.

She takes the complexity of polyvagal theory, and I myself have tried to read a couple of books on the topic

and found it pretty dense and pretty difficult to understand personally. Deb has a gift.

She makes it accessible, not just the theory, but how we can use it and apply it in our lives

and our relationships.

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