We all experience fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, but for those with trauma history, these responses to stress can become ...

Stress is an unavoidable part of life, and while it often carries a negative connotation, it is actually a fundamental survival mechanism. When faced with a perceived threat, whether physical or ...

Fight and flight have long been established responses to stress, presenting people with two paths: engage with conflict head-on or try to escape from it. But what happens when you can't seem to move ...

Before Porges’ (2011) polyvagal theory became widely known, it was commonly thought that the autonomous nervous system has only two branches: the sympathetic system which manages in times of stress, ...

Even if you have a high stress tolerance, most leaders have reported feeling an inordinate amount of stress in today’s ...

Stress disrupts a person’s emotional or physical balance and activates a response, and that response is typically anxiety and fear. “These emotions evolved to keep us alive in life-or-death situations ...

PHILADELPHIA - "Take a deep breath" is the mantra of every anxiety-reducing advice list ever written. And for good reason. There's increasing physiological evidence connecting breathing patterns with ...