All right, welcome to The Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton.

And today is the final installment of the May Mental Health Month.

I have been sharing for crucial tools, resources that have been

instrumental in my own improvement of my mental health and well-being. And so today I'm going to

share about how I reconnected to and regulated, begin to learn how to regulate my own nervous

system. So you can think about this as how

you can return, reconnect, and regulate your nervous system. And in the video, I'm going to share a few

things. One, my story about it because like most people, I grew up with ADD. And so in order to

function properly in the world, I needed to learn how to regulate my nervous system.

But I'm also going to talk a little bit about embodiment, what that embodiment means,

because that term gets thrown around a lot and generally don't, people don't really have a concept

for what it means. So I'm going to share the etymology of it. I'm going to recap how,

just in a very basic way, how the nervous system functions in case you're not fully familiar with it.

And then I'm going to talk a little bit about simple steps, very tactical, tangible steps,

like I've been doing in all these videos and audio sessions about what you can do to begin to reconnect to and regulate

your nervous system. So this was important for me and took quite a while for me to grasp

and wrap my head around and wrap my body around because like I said, as a kid, I grew up with

pretty severe ADD. I was the class clown. I had a ton of sugar constantly flowing through

my veins. I think I was probably like one quarter sugar in my blood. I, you know, I would like

stash chocolate chips in the couch, eat cookie dough raw, you know,

have ice cream, giant chocolate chip muffins for breakfast.

Like I had unfettered access to basically as much sugar as I could possibly consume as a kid.

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