Through THE GOD SHOT, Dr. Lipov aims to empower readers -- including trauma survivors, caregivers, clinicians, and anyone interested in the future of mental health -- with new insights into how the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most of us know about the “fight or flight” response, the body’s built-in survival instinct. But that framework leaves out two ...

Fight or flight are not the only common responses to a traumatic event. I addressed this a bit in a column published on November 22, 2022 explaining that some authors describe “4 F’s”: fight, flight, ...

Before Porges’ (2011) polyvagal theory became widely known, it was commonly thought that the autonomous nervous system has only two branches: the sympathetic system which manages in times of stress, ...

I was in a relationship with a man who I loved more than I loved anyone in my life. Then he married someone. He didn’t tell ...

Thriveworks reports that a dysregulated nervous system leads to heightened or dulled stress responses, affecting mental and ...

Self-compassion often fails after complex trauma, not because it is wrong, but because survival comes first. Attunement is the verb that builds safety before kindness is possible.

Does your body remember what your mind tries to forget A psychologist explains how trauma manifests as physical tension why the body keeps the score and simple ways to heal ...

Most of us know about the “fight or flight” response, the body’s built-in survival instinct. But that framework leaves out two other common ways the nervous system reacts to stress. Indeed, ...