Thank you for joining us for episode 554 of Live Happy Now.

This week, we're here to talk about what's happening in Vegas.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm joined by Rebecca Case, founder of the Trauma

Therapist Institute and an internationally recognized expert in trauma and nervous system

healing.

Her latest book, The Polyvagal Solution, Vegas Nerve Calming Practices to soothe stress, ease

emotional overwhelm, and build resilience, looks at what our vagus nerve does for us and

explains how it can be trained to better regulate our nervous system.

She's here to break it down for us. So let's have a listen. Rebecca, thank you for joining me on Live Happy Now. Oh, I'm so glad to be

here, Paula. Thanks for having me. This is going to be an exciting conversation. I was really excited

to see some of the work you've done and what you're putting out there. So let's start with

the basics. And for those who don't know, tell us what the Vegas nerve is and why it's important.

Yeah. So if you're on Instagram, if you're on social and you are a fan of the self-help world,

which I know that this podcast listener segment is, I'm sure

the Vegas nerve has popped up in your feed. It's getting a lot of attention because there's

just this incredible growing body of research that speaks to how incredibly important this nerve is

for our health and wellness. So your Vegas nerve is just maybe a couple of

short cliff note facts about it. The Vegas nerve, Vegas stands for Wanderer or Vagabond,

and I think of this is the wanderlust nerve because this nerve gets around y'all. It in

nerveates a lot of points in the body and that makes it very unique and special compared to other nerves.

This nerve is actually a bundle of nerves that have aferent and eferent nerve fibers.

So what that means is afferent or aferent nerves carry information from the body to the brain.

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