Hello and welcome to Let's talk about it. This is your host Taylor and I want to welcome you to today's episode wherever you are at right now. I hope that you are coming into this podcast open minded ready to learn a little bit today's episode.

You're going to learn about polyvabel theory, which I've mentioned briefly on the podcast in the past, but we're going to get a little bit deeper into it. And even as I, you know, zoom out recording this introduction.

Posts recording with my guest. There's so many pieces of this that are just falling into place for me as I reflect. So I do think that this will be a greatly introspective reflective episode for all of you listeners.

I'm tuning into this episode. So my guest for today is Justin since Siri. He's an LMFT and he also hosts the polyvabel podcast. He works a lot with trauma and he's really, really gotten pretty deep into this theory and he's going to share.

There's just kind of the basics of this theory. There's three primary pieces of this, but then there's also some mixed states and some note taking might be helpful during this.

I kind of jotted down a few notes just around the theory and was connecting some dots as I was doing some research on it. And I think that this could be really, really beneficial for any of you listening right now.

So I hope that you are hanging in there right now. I know times are tough and as much as I, you know, I'm trying to focus just on my immediate life and things that I can control and taking some breaks from hearing about everything that's going on. We will reference COVID-19 in some of this episode in terms of how to cope with distress and potential trauma that might be, you know,

that people might be struggling with right now. So this will, that will be a small part of this episode, but again, a lot of everything with polyvabel theory that we'll talk about is really applicable in like every sense of your day.

So with all of that said, welcome. Thank you so much for joining us on let's talk about it. And now let's talk about it.

All right, welcome Justin to the show. Thank you so much for being here and making the time for this. I know lives are a little stressful right now. So I super appreciate you making the time to be here.

I'm really happy to actually thank you for be willing to stay up a little bit later or start this later. Got my kids in bed.

Yes. Yeah, perfect.

It's a lot of things to balance right now. And I'm hoping digging into this conversation about polyvabel theory will help kind of give us some tools and give us a little bit of like different perception on how to cope with life in general, but also, you know, things that are happening specifically in the world right now around the experience in a worldwide pandemic.

And very strange times were living in.

In the past for some of our listeners that have been, you know, pretty consistent in an episode while back I have Dr. Lauren, vocal mercy on and she briefly went into polyvabel theory and it was kind of the first time I'd heard of it and it made a lot of sense.

I was like, oh, wow, like this. It does. Yeah, it's just instant. It does. Yeah.

And I know it can be pretty intense academically. It can be a little complicated to describe. But one of the things I appreciate, appreciate about you is that you make it very easy for people who maybe don't understand what it is to understand.

So if you could give maybe just like a brief synopsis on what polyvabel is and then we can kind of get into like how we apply it.

And I actually want to give a real quick heads up for people who might be hearing this for the first time is that some pieces in your life might come crashing down like it can be a pretty intensive thing because it has a lot to do with trauma.

And so for a lot of people, it's like, oh, it makes sense. And I can now get to the next phase of my life, but some people it's if they're hearing for the first time.

And then I read it and I'm ready for it. It might be a bit much. So just as it has a furlissness.

But the polyvabel theory is basically how mammals connect to each other, but also how we respond to danger and as human beings, that's us.

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