Hello, and welcome back to the Self-Healer Soundboard.

Today's episode is a part two follow-up from last week's episode where we talked about

shifting from trauma bonds into authentic relationships.

Specifically at the end of last week's episode, we talked about that moment of trigger or

that heightened moment in conflict where we have the opportunity to pause and respond

newly and make a new choice that is different from that autopilot reactive pattern that

we have from the past.

So today we're going to dive a bit deeper into that pause specifically how our nervous

system is impacted in those moments of conflict and in those moments of trigger so that we

can learn to one, be witness and have awareness of ourselves and our nervous system and how

we can shift into new choices and new responses that serve an authentic, healthy relationship

and union.

We decided to devote an entire episode to this because this is one of those areas where

it's much easier said than done.

We could profess how important it is to hit pause and I'm sure a lot of you listeners

have probably even heard of this tactic of stopping an argument before we say or do

something that we don't mean and in reality it's a much different embodiment practice.

It's much more difficult and one of the reasons being because our nervous system is actually

involved, our body is involved.

So I think a really helpful place to start is first to unpack what's happening in our

nervous system in those moments because we each have a little bit of a different reaction

in those moments depending on what state our nervous system is in.

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