Discovering the Divine - Understanding the Nervous System, Polyvagal Theory, Trauma, and Self Regulation
2 Be Better
Chris Burkett
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Become a member of The Tribe- https://www.2bebetter.com/join Want to go to travel with us?! - https://trovatrip.com/host/profiles/2-be-qxob7 Couples and other retreats - https://www.2bebetter.com/retreats This episode is a deep, practical breakdown of the nervous system, polyvagal theory, and how trauma, stress, and lived experience shape your reactions, behaviors, and sense of safety. Instead of blaming mindset, discipline, or willpower, this conversation explains why inconsistency, emotional flooding, shutdown, people pleasing, burnout, and self abandonment are often nervous system responses, not character flaws. You’ll learn how the body scans for safety through neuroception, how the ventral vagal, sympathetic, and dorsal vagal states work, and why your system may feel stuck in urgency, collapse, or numbness even when you want change This video walks you through regulation, embodiment, and nervous system awareness in a grounded, real world way. You can expect clear explanations, relatable examples, breathwork and somatic tools, and guidance on responding to yourself without shame or force. This is for anyone struggling with emotional regulation, trauma recovery, boundaries, burnout, anxiety, shutdown, or feeling disconnected from their body and relationships. If you want to understand why you react the way you do and how to build safety, presence, and self trust from the inside out, this episode will meet you where you are.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody back to Discover the divine. I am here today with another episode |
| 0:28.3 | by myself, a little nervous, a little, I have my, I don't have water. I have a soda. |
| 0:37.7 | I should get a water, but I'm not gonna. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm gonna drink the thing that dehydrates my cells. |
| 0:44.2 | Just a quick little size I digestion. |
| 0:46.2 | Do you guys remember in science plants if you had that cool science teacher |
| 0:49.5 | where they showed you with balloons what soda and like sugar and those kinds of things will do to the |
| 0:56.6 | cells over time. I think about that every time I take a sip of soda. And I drink about three |
| 1:04.8 | of these a day. So with this today's episode, the nervous system episode, this goes in tandem with the Yang Yang |
| 1:13.4 | episode. If you guys have not watched that yet, I highly recommend checking it out. Not that you'll |
| 1:18.5 | have to watch that to understand what's going on with the nervous system episode today, but it will |
| 1:24.0 | give you a more flavorful dish. It's going to give you a deeper understanding. It's |
| 1:33.0 | going to give you more aha moments. You're going to be that guy from always studying in Philadelphia |
| 1:38.0 | with the conspiracy theory shit behind you. I understand me. So with getting into this, if you have a journal, grab one. |
| 1:48.0 | If you have a notebook, if you use your phone, which I don't recommend doing, but you still get kudos for doing. |
| 1:54.1 | Grab it. |
| 1:55.5 | And my husband probably clipped that silence, and here we are. |
| 1:58.6 | So now getting into this episode, this episode is |
| 2:02.0 | not going to be about your mindset. It's not going to be about your discipline or your willpower, |
| 2:06.5 | your laziness, your desire to do things. You can have all of the want in the world, |
| 2:14.6 | and your nervous system will still work against you. So this is about becoming more regulated, |
| 2:19.7 | more put together, and less about trying harder to become somebody who is more consistent |
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