Cutting-edge strategies for interrupting your body's stress response, becoming stress-resilient, and achieving lasting calm in the face of chaos. Does it feel like you're always on high alert-fighting, fleeing, or flailing your way through daily life? You're far from alone. Stress has reached epidemic levels in our society, and can wreak havoc on both our physical and mental health-leading to anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance abuse. Your body was designed to cope with stress, but too much for too long overrides your built-in capacity to recover and restore. So, how can you transform the way you respond to and manage stress? The Polyvagal Solution provides a clear path to becoming stress-resilient in the face of daily chaos. Based in the neuroscience of polyvagal theory, this breakthrough guide will introduce you to your vagus nerve-the conductor of your emotions that's running the show when everything just feels like too much. By stimulating the
