Polyvagal Theory: Getting Back to Safe and Social

Understand your body’s response to threat and stress and get control of your nervous system

As part of adding to my repertoire as a wellness educator and counsellor, I am learning about the polyvagal theory, a framework that expands upon the scientific understanding of the body’s defensive systems. “Fight or flight” mode describes our bodies responding to danger by gearing up to kick, head butt, bite or punch — or just frickin run. I observed it in action daily in my work in a youth…