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Why You React Before You Think: Polyvagal Theory and the Nervous System Under Stress
This episode breaks down why your body is making decisions before your mind ever gets involved — and why insight alone doesn’t stop reactive patterns in relationships, conflict, or stress. Using Polyvagal Theory as a practical framework, it explains how nervous system states drive behavior under pressure, why people escalate, shut down, or dissociate without meaning to, and how meaning-making often happens after the reaction. The focus is on accuracy, not excuses: understanding how state precedes story, and why trying to “communicate better” fails when physiology isn’t online.
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