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Ep. 392. Your Brain Won’t Shut Up After Divorce? Try This Eye Exercise for Stress · Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce

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  SPEAKER_00: Hi, love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Dear Divorce Diary, the podcast helping divorcees go beyond talk therapy to process your grief, find the healing you crave, and build back your confidence.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Don Wiggins, a therapist, coach, integrative healer, and divorcee.
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  SPEAKER_00: Join me for a fresh approach to healing grief and building your confidence after divorce.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to walk you through today, Tiffany, this vagus nerve exercise by Stanley Rosenberg.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wrote all of this polyvagal nervous system exercise concepts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're going to explore today one that he teaches around something called sustained gaze.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means we're going to do something with the eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's not like EMDR where you're doing this rapid eye movement thing, because that's how EMDR works.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it is something where we work with supporting the head and the neck and do some eye movements, which I'm going to walk you through.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the point of it, love, is that when we're stressed out and we're overwhelmed and we we often can't get out of our own heads.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you relate to that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like overthinking, overthinking, overthinking.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you are triggered, when you are rehashing a conversation you had with your ex or like a text message that came through, and now you're activated and you can't stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is an exercise that gives you something to do that helps potentially shift your experience of being in your body, especially with your head and neck.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it may do absolutely nothing for you, Tiffany.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it will give you something to do when you feel activated with the potential that it's going to shift the intensity of the stress you're experiencing in your body.
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  SPEAKER_00: You game?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's do it.
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