“Remembering is almost as effective as doing… when you remember you bring back what your nervous system has experienced.”
Well listeners, this week’s episode can only be described as a Dream Come True. This week Sarah chats with one of the G.O.A.Ts of trauma-responsive care, Deb Dana!
Deb Dana is a clinician, consultant, author, speaker, and founding member of The Polyvagal Institute. Sarah and Deb’s conversation centered around Sarah’s 2nd Core Conviction of trauma-responsive care: Regulation is a practice and what a day in the life of a Direct Service Provider can look like through the lens of the 2nd Core Conviction (21:02). Deb also provides insight into why remembering is so powerful (13:50) and what the trouble with visualization is (14:52). They wrap up their conversation with Deb sharing a few things to do and ways to be from the perspective of a DSP (46:20).
Mentioned in this episode:
Polyvagal Theory: Coregulation, Neuroception, Hierarchy (07:28 )
The 3 essential elements for the Nervous System: Context, Choice and Connection (19:10)
A practice of Noticing and Naming
2 min regulation practices that DSPs can do to regulate their own nervous systems (23:41)
Tempo matching and Tempo mismatching (32:12)
- Contact Deb Dana at: Rhythm of Regulation
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