Ep #174: Polyvagal 101
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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#174: This week, I guide you through polyvagal theory and nervous system regulation. I’m showing you how to get present with your felt experience, and how, from there, you can interact with, regulate, and have ownership of your nervous system patterns so you can stop living from the neck up and come home to your body.
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| 0:00.0 | This is feminist wellness and I'm your host, nurse practitioner, functional medicine expert and life coach Victoria Albina. I'll be full heart. Welcome my love let's get started. |
| 0:26.7 | Hello hello my love I hope this finds you doing so well the The sun is shining, the peonies are blooming, things feel pretty lovely up here |
| 0:39.5 | on occupied Muncile not bay territory, the Hudson Valley of New York. I love the summer. |
| 0:46.7 | And so I have been working with Polyvagel Theory and the nervous systemous System for many, many years. |
| 0:54.8 | It's been a really cornerstone part of my medical practice in functional medicine and in my |
| 1:02.0 | coaching as a somatic life coach. And I realized the other day I was |
| 1:06.1 | looking through the old episode files and I was like I have talked a lot about |
| 1:10.8 | Polyvago throughout these episodes over the last three years but I've never |
| 1:15.2 | done like a full-on Polyvagel 101 and it's about time. So my nerds here is the possibly the biggest nerd alert I will ever give you, |
| 1:26.0 | which is to put on those safety goggles and make sure you're wearing closed toes shoes in the lab. |
| 1:31.0 | I hear you, you hear me. It's important. |
| 1:35.4 | Because we're about to do a deep dive into polyvagal theory, while obviously not like getting lost |
| 1:41.5 | in the weeds of heart rate variability and all those details, but let's go over what it is, why we care, how it impacts our lives, and how it can be an important vessel for getting to know ourselves better and to living |
| 1:56.5 | happier lives with less codependency, perfectionism, and people pleasing because all of those habits impact our nervous system and are impacted by our nervous system. |
| 2:07.8 | So, you know, the more you know, right? |
| 2:11.8 | Okay, so we're going to start with some deep science. So |
| 2:15.0 | Polyvagal theory as we think about it now is the work of Dr. Stephen Porge's |
| 2:19.1 | PhD. It was proposed in 1994 and so he studied heart rate variability in neonates in the |
| 2:25.5 | neonatal ICU how much did baby's heart rates vary when they were with |
| 2:30.9 | what we might call attachment figures when they were getting love and care |
| 2:34.8 | and being attuned to and what was happening in their heart rate when they were not being attuned to. |
| 2:40.6 | So that's not as applicable. So Deb Dana is the goddess. She's a social worker. |
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