by Andrea Trank | Dec 5, 2021
Understanding and Changing Behaviors are not the Same What works when you are trying to change your autonomic nervous system’s reaction to events and situations? As I pointed out in part 1 of this series, (see earlier blog post here) there is a reason your...
by Andrea Trank | Nov 28, 2021
Finding New Ways to Heal through Understanding our Biology! “A symptom will persist until it is understood, not pathologized”. These words struck me as incredibly wise as I was attending the Polyvagal Institute’s Many Voices of Polyvagal Theory Virtual...
by Andrea Trank | Nov 7, 2021
What’s the Difference and Why it Matters! Thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes– I think we all confuse these terms a bit. Having studied and practiced yoga for many years, and learned about HeartMath tools and the Polyvagal theory most recently, I...
by Andrea Trank | Oct 10, 2021
Why Bottom-Up not Top-Down May Work for Mental Health! Today is World Mental Health Day. Perhaps we should rename this as “The Role of the Nervous System World Mental Health Day.” Here is what I have learned through my own mental health healing journey. When I was in...
by Andrea Trank | Sep 20, 2020
Which nervous system is controlling your life and your healing? Have you noticed that when you want to learn something, you have an easier time retaining the information and following through on what you have learned? Timing of knowledge, I am realizing, is so...