From Survival Mode to Thriving: Hacking Your Neurobiology for Success using Polyvagal Theory with Dr. Stephen Porges

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. Since Stephen Porges first proposed the Polyvagal Theory in 1994, its basic idea―that the level of safety we feel impacts our health and happiness―has radically shifted how researchers and clinicians approach trauma interventions and therapeutic interactions. Yet despite its wide acceptance, most of the information on the topic has been obscured behind clinical texts and scientific jargon. In this episode we talk with the founder of Polyvagal Theory, Dr. Stephen Porges, to better understand how to master our autonomic nervous system for health and happiness. Dr. Porges' book, Our Polyvagal World: How Safety and Trauma Change Us, is available now. To learn more about Dr. Porges, go to stephenporges.com. Links: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnint.2022.871227/full?fbclid=IwAR1qtL6FhiAqEPFFU1G-R2pm70rUTx9EbJIyEHJTZV0KeHHTgkiUxm2Zj-g https://www.clinicalneuropsychiatry.org/download/the-covid-19-pandemic-is-a-paradoxical-challenge-to-our-nervous-system-a-polyvagal-perspective-2/ Support the Show - Become a Patron! Help us grow and become a Patron today: https://www.patreon.com/smartpeoplepodcast Sponsors: Hims - Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/SMART. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.5	Chris Demp here. Thanks for tuning in. You know, with the amount of book titles that come across
0:52.9	my desk and emails we get and things
0:55.5	that we do, it's rare that I find something absolutely fascinating that is completely unknown
1:03.2	to me. Yet, here we are with this week's episode. I am really pumped to bring you this one. The reason being, I think the things
1:13.4	we talk about here can be extremely impactful. And I also think there's a lot more to uncover,
1:20.5	but the point is I'm hoping that I'm introducing most of you to something new. That you can say during this time you were exposed
1:29.7	to a really powerful idea that you had otherwise not known about. And that idea is called
1:37.7	polyvagal theory. Now listen, at its basic level, the polyvagal theory seems pretty obvious.
1:45.7	However, like most things, the more you dig, the more questions you have.
1:52.3	I want to caveat this episode by saying there are parts of it that are relatively easy to
1:57.5	understand, should be really engaging, should prime your curiosity.
2:01.5	There are other parts that are deep and tough to understand. There's even a point where I just
2:06.5	told him, I don't know what you're saying. I also did my best to try to simplify things or
2:13.1	understand it myself. Sometimes I think I succeeded. other times I failed. The point in this is,
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