Welcome, friends. In today’s episode, I’m reflecting on creating the conditions for more easeful nervous system regulation and how we know that healing is happening.
I talk about the Activation Map by Peter Levine, which was updated into the “Three Directions Map,” by Brigit Viskins to include looping. When activation occurs we may have the ability to distract and sooth back down to stabilization, the first direction. We may find ourselves looping in dysregulation, the second direction. Finally, there may be a possibility to go higher into activation without looping and come all the way down to the other side toward completion, integration, and extinction; this is the third direction.
Creating conditions can help support us to move through the entire process. Creating conditions and integrating these new patterns may happen in small pieces over time.
Join me as we explore our somatic experiences and the power of pause, choice, community, distance, self-care and boundary repair as conditions for well-being.
Connect with Sarah Resources- 010 - Mini Musings: Preparation
- 001 - Michael Leary: The Power of Your North Star
- 013 - Tamika Schilbe Cole: The Truth About Truth Aches
- Peter Levine, In An Unspoken Voice
- Alchemical Alignment with Brigit Viskins
- Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
- Polyvagal Theory from Dr. Stephen Porges
- Tele Darden