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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

How Social Connection Combats Stress | Psychiatrist, Dr. Stephen Porges

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Stephen Porges, a distinguished university scientist at Indiana University, where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. 

He is also a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. 

Stephen more than 350 peer‐reviewed scientific papers, published across several disciplines, have been cited in approximately 40,000 peer-reviewed papers. 

He holds several patents involved in monitoring and regulating autonomic state and originated the polyvagal theory, which emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral, mental, and health problems related to traumatic experiences. 

So at its core, this conversation is about the triggers that either prompt us to feel threatened or safe… and why social connection or lack thereof plays such an integral role in which state we gravitate towards.

Stephen is a legend in the field so I can’t wait for you to learn from him.

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0:00.0

We all have, all vertebrates have a no reception of danger, and safety is not the same as not having cues of threat.

0:11.0

Safety is something special. It's the voice of the mother, it's a smiling friendship. It's a trust that makes us social mouths, social species.

0:31.0

Alright, welcome back, or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Jervé, and by trade and training I am a sport and performance psychologist.

0:41.0

And I am fortunate to work with some of the most extraordinary thinkers and doers across the planet.

0:47.0

And the whole idea behind this podcast is to learn from those people.

0:52.0

Not exactly those people, because I'm not bringing my clients on the show here, but to learn from folks that are so extraordinary at their craft and their mind, that they're changing the way we understand human potential.

1:08.0

And what we're trying to do is pull back the curtain to understand their psychological framework, to understand how do they make sense of things.

1:19.0

And I'm talking about things inside of themselves, things that are external, like events and activities, we want to understand how do they use their mind.

1:29.0

And our minds are greatest asset. If you want to learn more about how you can train your mind, this is just a quick little note here, a little reminder, if you will, that I want to encourage you to check out the psychological skills training course that I created using good science,

1:45.0

informed by those who are also on the frontier of human potential, and basically going to show you exactly how we train them in the same very way that we can train you.

1:56.0

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