Welcome to the very first episode of Navigating the Nervous System with Kristin Cronin Boone, licensed therapist, interpersonal neurobiology nerd, and your guide to understanding why you do the things you do. In this episode, we dive into how your nervous system drives behavior, emotion, and survival responses, often without your conscious awareness. You'll meet “Miss Amygdala,” learn about the upstairs vs. downstairs brain, and explore the three key nervous system states: safe, stress, and shutdown. Kristin shows you how to recognize your state and begin to reset in real time with box breathing.