What happens in vagus, stays in vagus
- Katie McCarthy
- Mar 7, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 31, 2024
Have you seen my online course space ?
This is the area where I share my knowledge, I have some free mini courses and paid course options.
"What happen in vagus, stays in vagus" is a paid course, it is $22.
This course is a compilation of the tools I have learnt and work with daily in my own nervous system support. The course is easy to follow, each section has written content where the bulk of the information is and the sciencey stuff. Then you will find a video of me (its like i'm talking to you in real life) explaining each section and what tools and practices are involved. Each practice has an audio meditation or guided practice ranging from 11-19 minutes so you can use these tools daily. I might add my meditation voice is pretty good.
The design of the course is set up so you can do bite sized bits at a time so it isn't overwhelming. This course is an introduction into working with your nervous system and will be followed on by the current course I am working on called Recalibrate, which is a more in depth exploration of your nervous system.
I offer 1:1 Recalibrate sessions in person in the salon space, but I wanted to offer this as an online program too, so stay tuned and in the mean time start with "What happens in vagus, stays in vagus"
So what the heck do I mean when I say What happens in Vagus, stays in Vagus. Well it's a super fun play on words of course I couldn't help myself because I think it's super fun.
So the nervous system keeps a record of everything, I mean everything. You think google tracks you and advertises things to you, well your nervous system is better than google. It keeps a record of all the events that have happened throughout your life, in particular those that are stressful or traumatic as they are more linked with your survival responses, so the nervous system needs to pay attention to those events.
When we have a stress or trauma it is stored in the nervous system and body, if we have the opportunity to finish the stress response in the body and come back to a regulated state then the body has the ability to process this event and it isn't stored as an unfinished trauma. While its outside of the scope of this course to go in depth into the nervous system but here's an example. When we observe the animal world we can see this in great detail. eg; an animal that has to out run a predator will have a process in the body occur which creates sympathetic activation increasing blood flow and releasing certain chemicals in the body in order to give the animal the energy to escape the situation. When the animal is safe again you may observe an animal shaking its body this is very common in dogs and easy to see. This is the animal resetting its nervous system the animal then goes into a rest phase where the body can fully recover from the stress.
If you would love to join the online space check out the online programs area on the website
or send me a message and I will get you started.




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