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Here, for the first time, is a layperson's explanation of polyvagal theory, an approach to mental health and well-being that has taken the clinical world by storm. A polyvagal approach to life is based on the knowledge that the autonomic nervous system is shaped by early experience and reshaped with ongoing experience. This short book will offer an overview for nonspecialist readers and provide a series of exercises and meditations (practices) that will allow readers to tune into their nervous systems, providing calming prompts to build and strengthen ventral vagal connections. This book includes a never-before-published comprehensive chapter on polyvagal theory, preceded by exercises that focus on mapping, reflecting, listening, deepening, creating, and connecting. Readers who want to change a pattern and find new rhythm for their nervous systems can use this material to work toward those goals.

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Highly recommended for anyone wanting to understand, befriend, and learn to regulate their nervous system and thereby find inner peace.--Gabor Maté, MD, author of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture Deb Dana brilliantly crafts succinctly accessible and poignantly effective practices of self-exploration.--Stephen W. Porges, PhD, creator of the Polyvagal Theory, distinguished university scientist, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University

Highly recommended for anyone wanting to understand, befriend, and learn to regulate their nervous system and thereby find inner peace.--Gabor Mate, MD, author of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture Deb Dana brilliantly crafts succinctly accessible and poignantly effective practices of self-exploration.--Stephen W. Porges, PhD, creator of the Polyvagal Theory, distinguished university scientist, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University

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Deb Dana, LCSW, is a clinician, consultant, and speaker specializing in complex trauma. She is the leading translator of Dr. Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory for both clinical and general audiences, and the best-selling author of Polyvagal Practices, Polyvagal Card Deck, The Polyvagal Flip Chart, Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection, The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy, and co-editor with Dr. Stephen Porges of Clinical Applications of The Polyvagal Theory. She trains therapists around the world in how to bring a Polyvagal approach into their clinical practice, and also works with agencies and larger systems to explore how to incorporate a Polyvagal perspective. She is founding member of The Polyvagal Institute, a consultant to Khiron Clinics, and an advisor to Unyte. Visit her website at http://rhythmofregulation.com/.

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