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…
The label is the least interesting part. Here’s what’s happening in your body. Most people encounter attachment theory through a quiz. You answer a dozen questions about how you behave in relationships, get assigned a label, anxious, avoidant, secure, and walk away thinking you’ve learned something useful. Sometimes you have. But the label is the…
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…