Polyvagal Theory and Hope In Healing from Childhood Trauma

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Those who live with the after-effects of severe childhood trauma understand well how it feels to be continually on the lookout for danger. Some experience this as hypervigilance feeling unsafe no matter who they are with or where they are in life.

Polyvagal theory does a wonderful job of explaining these responses as well as defining some ways survivors who live…