Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the US age 18 and older, or 18.1% of the population. (Source: ADAA)

In this episode, guest Ingrid Helander, LMFT and Author of 'Calm Your Worries: Unlock Your Secret Code to Lasting
Stress Relief and Self-Confidence' and host Nicole Morin discuss a scientific understanding of the nervous system, its role as a protector, and how you might be able to transform this understanding into practices to provide lasting relief from anxiety and chronic worry.

Our conversation covers:

- How to recognize the feeling of worry in the body, and the variations of personal experiences

- What does “chronic worry” mean?

- How to support a loved one when they voice their worries to you

- Causes of worry due to unaddressed or subconscious triggers from past trauma

- What causes worry as defined by the Polyvagal theory

- What is the polyvagal theory?

- The purpose of the sympathetic nervous system

- The Ventral-Vagal nerve of connection, and the vagal break

- How depressive/shut down states are healthy, protective responses

- What is a body bookmark? And an example practice to “install” one

- Viewing worry & anxiety responses as temporary states

- How can a state of depression be serving me?

- Modern day “threats” to the system that have become commonplace

- How to be a guide for your nervous system, vs. being run by it

- How and why the mind perpetuates the worry cycle

Work with Ingrid:
https://ingridyhelanderlmft.com/appointment-request

Instantly access her book, 'Calm Your Worries: Unlock Your Secret Code to Lasting Stress Relief and Self-Confidence' here:

https://www.calmyourworries.com