On our journey to becoming trauma-aware, we need to first learn something about the (healthy) emotional system. Sure, this is a physiology-heavy episode, but it comes with my brand of weird references and analogies that (hopefully) help make it not-such-a-snoozefest. This episode is broken down into three main sections:

1. The peripheral autonomic nervous system
2. The mid-brain structures involved in our limbic system
3. The higher cortical areas in our limbic system

Visual Resources:

• Autonomic nervous system
  • Vagus nerve visual
• Mid-brain structures:
  • The hippocampus
  • The amygdala
  • The hypothalamus
• Higher cortical structures:
  • Anterior cingulate cortex
  • Insula

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