Unlock the Secrets of Your Autonomic Nervous System—Fight, Flight, and Freeze Explained

Curious about how your nervous system shapes your mood, stress responses, and healing journey? In this essential episode of The Thrive Podcast with Rebecca Kase, trauma therapist, author, and yoga teacher Rebecca guides you through the science and spirit of the three key pathways—fight, flight, and freeze—that define the autonomic nervous system. Whether you’re a trauma therapist, healer, yogi, or anyone seeking nervous system regulation and lasting resilience, this episode reveals actionable insights to help you thrive—not just survive.

Discover:

• Polyvagal theory explained: How your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems work and what the vagus nerve means for your emotional health.
• Physiological state decoded: Learn how your body’s state influences anxiety, depression, shutdown, or thriving, and why “fight, flight, and freeze” aren’t just buzzwords—they’re your biology in action.
• Why neuroception matters: Unlock how subconscious threat detection shapes emotion, behavior, and healing, plus how you can intervene for greater safety and presence.
• Real tools for nervous system regulation: Simple tips (breath work, movement, finding moments of safety and joy) to activate your ventral vagal pathway and shift from survival mode to grounded thriving.
• Science meets spirituality: Blending neuroscience with lived experience, Rebecca offers hope, neuroplasticity insights, and micro-practices for lasting transformation.

If you’re recovering from trauma, supporting others through healing, or simply searching for more balance and connection in life, tune in for empowering strategies you can use today.

Don’t miss Rebecca’s new book "The Polyvagal Solution"—explore even more powerful tools for nervous system healing, coming soon from New Harbinger.

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Keywords: polyvagal theory, autonomic nervous system, fight flight freeze, vagus nerve, trauma recovery, nervous system regulation, neuroscience, emotional health, ventral vagal, neuroplasticity, Rebecca Kase, mental health podcast, healing, resilience