Nervous System healing: Polyvagal Therapy
Polyvagal theory, trauma, post traumatic stress disorder, trauma therapy, EMDR, anxiety attack, anxiety, generalised anxiety disorder, depression, panic attack, somatic therapy Sara Allahverdi Polyvagal theory, trauma, post traumatic stress disorder, trauma therapy, EMDR, anxiety attack, anxiety, generalised anxiety disorder, depression, panic attack, somatic therapy Sara Allahverdi

Nervous System healing: Polyvagal Therapy

Polyvagal theory helps people understand and work with their nervous system’s responses to stress, trauma, and connection — especially the way we shift between states of safety, shutdown, or hyperarousal. Polyvagal-informed therapy can also help you track and regulate your nervous system.

This insight can reduce shame and increase self-compassion. You learn to recognize when you're shifting into fight/flight or shutdown, and practice tools to move back into a regulated state. These can include breathwork to calm sympathetic arousal, movement or touch to emerge from dorsal shutdown, voice tone, music, or eye contact to activate safety cues

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Family issues - enmeshment trauma: family won't respect my boundaries
anxious attachment, enmeshment, enmeshment trauma, childhood trauma, trauma therapy, trauma, emotional trauma, relationship issues, relationship therapy, family issues, family therapy, couples therapy, narcissism, parentification Sara Allahverdi anxious attachment, enmeshment, enmeshment trauma, childhood trauma, trauma therapy, trauma, emotional trauma, relationship issues, relationship therapy, family issues, family therapy, couples therapy, narcissism, parentification Sara Allahverdi

Family issues - enmeshment trauma: family won't respect my boundaries

Enmeshment trauma (also seen as over-intimacy or excessive closeness) is a type of emotional trauma that is caused by a lack of clear and healthy boundaries in the family environment and dynamics. Over-intimacy/enmeshment can happen when boundaries (typically between a parent and child) are blurred, overly diffused or even nonexistent. This leads to the child being emotionally fused with the parent's needs, wants, feelings or identity.

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