Melissa Brown: Nourishing Your Nervous System

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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When was the last time you felt truly relaxed, present, and at peace with everything going on in your life and in our world? In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Melissa Brown about her new audio learning program, Nourishing Your Nervous System, and how we can begin to empower ourselves to choose the state of regulation over dysregulation. Give a listen to this practical and inspiring discussion of the ventral vagal branch of the parasympathetic nervous system—and how we can access it for calm, joy, and vitality; co-regulation with others as a means to move out of dorsal depression; productive thinking versus rumination and other forms of unhealthy thinking; the elongated breath as a tool for shifting out of sympathetic arousal (or the “fight, flight, freeze” response); improving your “vagal tone”; doom-scrolling, binge-watching, and other ways we distract ourselves from what we don’t want to feel—and how we can learn to hold a state of vitality and a state of tension at the same time; the psoas muscles and their connection to nervous system activation; the benefits of “constructive rest pose”; “fixed action patterns” and how the psoas muscles store trauma; attuning to your heart; and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by SoundsTrue.
0:05.4	My name is Tammy Simon, I'm the founder of SoundsTrue, and I'd love to take a moment
0:10.2	to introduce you to the SoundsTrue Foundation.
0:13.6	The goal of the SoundsTrue Foundation is to provide access and eliminate financial barriers
0:20.3	to transformational education and resources, such as teachings and trainings on mindfulness,
0:27.8	emotional awareness and self-compassion.
0:31.2	If you'd like to learn more and join with us in our efforts, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
0:42.5	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Melissa Brown.
0:47.0	Melissa is a somatic counselor and heller work structural integration practitioner.
0:54.3	She has a degree in medical anthropology, and she studied various forms of healing at
1:00.2	the Twin Lakes College of the Healing Arts.
1:03.0	With SoundsTrue, Melissa Brown has partnered with Sharon Stanley, Andrea Larson, and Mukdee
1:10.8	to create a brand new audio course.
1:14.0	It's called nourishing your nervous system.
1:17.8	What you need to know to care for yourself in stressful times.
1:22.9	Melissa gives us some very simple and very profound tips on how we can assess our nervous
1:31.1	system state, and if we find we're dysregulated, choose to return to regulation.
1:40.1	Here's my conversation, very helpful conversation, practical conversation with Melissa Brown.
1:49.0	So during this time of heightened stressors, whether it's climate change or the fears
1:57.2	of gun violence, everything that we've gone through collectively with the pandemic, people
2:03.0	are more and more interested in understanding their nervous system and how to become an
2:09.2	active operator of their nervous system.
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