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Can You Read The Signals From Your Own Nervous System?

Moment by moment, your nervous system is helping you respond to changes in your environment through a variety of sensations and feelings. Neuro-literacy and emotion literacy help you recognize, understand, and regulate these different states so that you can effectively protect yourself, meet your own needs, and respond to challenges. If you tend to ignore, deny, or dump your feelings onto others, you might benefit from the information on this website.

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Can You Read Your Nervous System?

Moment by moment, your nervous system is helping you respond to changes in your environment through a variety of sensations and feelings. Neuro-literacy and emotion literacy help you recognize, understand, and regulate these different states so that you can effectively protect yourself, meet your own needs, and respond to challenges. If you tend to ignore, deny, or dump your feelings on others, you might benefit from the information on this website.

Free Emotion Glossary

Definitions

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Stress Arrives to Fuel You.

It gives you enough energy and discomfort to respond to changes in your environment.

 

Stress Arrives to Fuel You Towards Constructive Action

Rocket Fuel for Change

To transform your stress into strength, you must be willing to go through the four stages of The Action Cycle:

  1. Insight: Being able to accurately identify the underlying need behind each emotional state.
  2. Action: Taking effective action to meet each need in a respectful and responsible way.
  3. Satisfaction: Being able to identify when each need has been met, and gain satisfaction from this.
  4. Rest: Being able to rest after the need has been met.

Harness Your Power

To transform your stress into strength, you must be willing to go through the four stages of The Action Cycle:

1

Insight: Being able to accurately identify the underlying need behind each emotional state.

2

Action: Taking effective action to meet each need in a respectful and responsible way.

3

Satisfaction: Being able to identify when each need has been met, and gain satisfaction from this.

4

Rest: Being able to rest after the need has been met.

MEET YOUR INTERNAL FAMILY OF STRESSFUL EMOTIONS

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Core Stress

Core Emotions are instinctive reactions that arise quickly to help you meet a basic need. They are your nervous system's way of talking to you.

Helps you become PROTECTIVE

Helps you become RESILIENT

Helps you be HONEST

Helps you be BRAVE

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Secondary Stress 

Secondary Emotions squash your Core Emotions into the "I'm Fine" box in order to slow down (or rethink) instinctive knee-jerk reactions.

Helps you become CURIOUS & ETHICAL

WARNING!

IF GUILT, SHAME & ANXIETY GET OVERWORKED, THE BODY WILL DEPLOY DEFENSES

Common Defenses

( Symbolized By The Box )

Introducing
ACTIVATE YOUR STRENGTH™

A three-part program to help you transform your stress into strength. 

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PART ONE

Take a Quick Tour of The Nervous System

Learn how your nervous system shapes your emotional reactions, and how completing the stress response
cycle can restore balance.

PART TWO

Find Safety In Your Body

Expand your capacity to be resilient with trauma-informed movement and breathing exercises. Explore different techniques to find out what works for you.

PART THREE

Learn to Work With Exiled Feelings

Explore 36 stressful feelings to help you expand your emotion vocabulary, and make empowered choices under stress. This is a great resource for therapists.

 
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THIS PROGRAM COMES WITH

An Illustrated Glossary of Outcast Emotions

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THIS PROGRAM COMES WITH

An Illustrated Glossary of Emotions

Sample the Glossary

“You are doing something that doesn’t exist, and something that was desperately needed. This is truly a work of neuro-art!”

Professor Nicole Glynn, L.C.S.W.

CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER & TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTICES INSTRUCTOR

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