Ep 168: Stop Telling Yourself to Calm Down with Laura Sgro
About this episode
The episode discusses the autonomic nervous system and its impact on anxiety, burnout, and dissociation with therapist Laura Sgro.
Send us Fan Mail Your body reacts before your brain can explain it and that can feel confusing, embarrassing, or downright discouraging. We sit down with licensed therapist Laura Sgro to make the “nervous system” conversation concrete, starting with what people usually mean online: the autonomic nervous system that drives automatic functions like breathing, heart rate, digestion, and your threat response. From anxiety and burnout to shutdown and dissociation, we talk about why these patterns ...
People in this episode
Host: Beth Trammell PhD, HSPP
Guest: Laura Sgro
Topics covered
- nervous system
- anxiety
- burnout
- dissociation
- mental health
Keywords
- nervous system
- anxiety
- burnout
- dissociation
- mental health
- therapy
- autonomic functions
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