The Nervous System Workbook: Practical Exercises to Ease Anxiety, Find Safety, and Come Home to Yourself Using Polyvagal Theory [Paperback]

A guide to understand and befriend your unique nervous systemand find your way back to safety and calm in times of stress

We live in stressful times. When were anxious and overwhelmed, our nervous systemsand our livessuffer. We cant eliminate all of lifes difficulties, butThe Nervous System Workbookcan teach you how to find more well-being amidst it all, starting inside your own body.

Deb Dana, a leading expert in Polyvagal Theory, shares incredibly effective tools for getting to know your system. She writes, No two nervous systems are exactly alike, and getting to know how your nervous system works leads you along the path to becoming an active operator of your own system, no matter how it is wired.

Step-by-step, Dana takes you through more than 50 short practices and exercises that teach you:

How your personal nervous system respondsto whats happening outside you, to whats happening inside you, and how you communicate with others systems
How to recognize when youre in a state of distress
What helps you feel calm and centered
Why co-regulationconnecting with otherscan support your sense of security
Strategies to find more safety and ease within yourself

QR codes throughout the book point to bonus audio practices guided by Dana.

As Dana writes, When you learn to befriend the nervous system, youll move through the world in a new way and experience the powerful benefits that come with finding your personal pathways to calm and freedom.

A guide to understand and befriend your unique nervous systemand find your way back to safety and calm in times of stress. Deb Dana, a leading expert in Polyvagal Theory, shares more than 50 short practices and exercises that teach you to understand how your personal nervous system works and how to find more safety and ease within yourself.Deb Dana, LCSW,is a clinician and consultant specializing in using the lens of Polyvagal Tlƒ3