I've been trying to get back to the work I love to do, and it's taken me so long to get back into it. Even after I was physically doing really well, emotionally I felt too fragile to return to work that requires reflection, connection, and vulnerability until very recently.

I decided to make this the topic of my first solo recording after taking a year-long break due to illness.

Although I felt a push (from where?) to get back to work and resume life, upon reflection, my instincts to go slow make a lot of sense. My body had retuned to being less busy and social in the world, like many of us likely experienced in the pandemic. My disease has brought with it new needs and risk tolerances. I need to go slowly and check my boundaries in every relationship to determine my physical and emotional safety.

This combination of retunement and navigating new boundaries, has left me feeling really "off".  I've needed to go slow to determine what is safe and what isn't.

Using Dr. Stephen Porges Polyvagal, I will explore that resilience is fostered through the very process I'm navigating - experiencing stress and moving out of homeostasis and then returning to safety to resume homeostasis. Sometimes we return to safety on our own and other times we need support from others to help us co-regulate and return to safety.

Key take aways from this podcast;
*What is retunement?
*What is Polyvagal Theory?
*What is Co-regulation?
*Resilience is the stretching out of homeostasis and returning back to safety.

In the next podcast, I share a reflection from a real life example of how my NVC group offered me co-regulation when I needed it most. Building resilience sure does take a lot of practice!

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