What Is the Window of Tolerance?
The window of tolerance explains why your capacity to cope varies so much day to day. Here’s what it means, what narrows it, and how to widen it over time.
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Why Your Nervous System Shuts Down in Arguments
When you shut down in arguments, it’s not weakness or avoidance, it’s a nervous system response. Here’s the biology behind it and what to do instead.
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Signs Your Nervous System Is Dysregulated
You’re not overreacting. Your nervous system is just stuck in a pattern it learned a long time ago. “Dysregulated” gets used a lot in wellness spaces without much explanation. Your therapist might have used it about you. You might have come across it in something you were reading and wondered whether it applies. The nervous…
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Polyvagal Theory Explained: What It Means for Your Relationships
Why your nervous system has three gears, and why the one you’re in determines everything. Polyvagal Theory has become one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot in therapy offices and wellness content without anyone fully explaining what it actually means. Which is a shame, because it’s one of the more genuinely useful…
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What Is the Vagus Nerve and Why Does It Matter?
The nerve you’ve never heard of is running most of the show. You’ve probably been hearing about the vagus nerve a lot lately. Cold plunges, humming exercises, breathwork apps, half of them claim to be “stimulating your vagus nerve.” At some point it starts to sound like wellness jargon, another thing to optimize. But the…
