The Science of Safety: How to Rewire Your Nervous System For Resilience & Joy With Brittany Piper
Update: 2025-10-20
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Episode Highlights With Brittany
- What polyvagal theory is and the updated science of the nervous system
- Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and what this means
- Three principles of polyvagal theory: hierarchy of responses, coregulation, neuroception
- Humans have a bioligcal imperative to be in connection with others
- What glimmers or safety cues are and how to understand these
- Misconceptions and misinformed ideas related to nervous system regulation
- Regulation does not mean being calm, cool, and collected all the time
- What somatic experiencing is and how it can be helpful in processing emotions and physical symptoms
- Steps you can take and try now to support your body, emotions, and nervous system
- Trauma doesn’t always come back as a memory but can come back as patterns and reactions
- How to know if exhaustion is going into shut down or just the body finally being able to rest
- Why we actually have to go through fight or flight to climb the nervous system ladder
- When things can feel worse before they feel better
- Why the nervous system prefers predictable over safe at times and why slower is faster when it comes to the nervous system
- We will never be fully healed and releasing that expectation
Resources Mentioned
- Body-First Healing: Get Unstuck and Recover from Trauma with Somatic Healing by Brittany Piper
- Body First Healing Program
- Body First Healing on Instagram
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
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