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Thank you. Clearly a great resource, esp as IT WORKS!!! and she shows it working. A saying that often comes to mind: the proof's in the pudding.

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Yes, there are a gang of "scientists" who are out to get Dr Porges and his work, because he has popularized his research - not the done thing in academic circles - even though the understandings he has brought has proven so very effective in many different modern problems!

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He's one of the experts repeatedly interviewed by Ruth Buczynski (I had to look up the spelling!!) who has done a huge amount on neuroscience and trauma. I like her stuff. but she has recently done a bunch of stuff on "systemic racism" and I went ughh!

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I've not followed the whole vagus nerve debate closely but it seems there certainly are scientists who don't agree with it. I do sometimes wonder if Porges didn't map a very useful psychological model onto the nervous system with an element of wishful thinking. Hopefully not.

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Yes, it is a map, not the territory, but the metaphor is predictive and practical, with provable benefits!

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I'm doing my own trauma healing as an adult. Over the past three years, I've seen a remarkable change in my now 8 y/o son. As my anxiety, stressors, and coping mechanisms heal, his ticks are slowly melting away. I'm able to hold him in a safe container, and provide to him what was not provided to me.

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This is great! Thanks for sharing.

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Wow! Thanks so much for sharing this, this is a new line of inquiry for me, have done some reading about epi-genetic changes, but this seems like an new angle. Will be reading with interest. I know a lot of people/groups who will be interested in this too.

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