We CoRegulate: The Center for Body Up Co-Regulation

08/08/2025

04/29/2025

🌊 I've been thinking about healing, re-engaging our regulation systems for resilience. We have essential feedback loops for our basic physiologic systems that don't always re-engage after stress ...

🌊 So much of what keeps us alive and healthy in our bodies is unconscious and yet essential. Polyvagal theory and Body Up Co-Regulation offer pathways for adjusting our unconscious autonomic functions intentionally, increasing health and resilience.

🌊 Threat responses narrow our focus to what the nervous system deems essential for survival, often at the expense of basic systems that are necessary for long-term health. This is an adaptive response. However, resilience depends on our ability to widen our lens again once the threat has passed.

🌊 The Cost of Threat Responses in the Body
This February, Porges explained how deep, regulatory feedback loops can get restricted or even turned off by threat responses. In particular, digestion, immunity, inflammation, sleep cycles, and cardiovascular function are often impacted.

🌊 In the short term, this isn’t a problem. But if we remain in states of prolonged stress or severe threat, those feedback loops don’t just restart automatically when the stress ends.

🌊 This can lead to what we often see with PTSD ...
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04/10/2025

What a week.
How is everyone doing?

I've been thinking and writing about resilience, *the essence of resilience* and how to embody more of it.

Please remember that you are not alone. Reach out to trusted folks and ask for what you need. Nine times out of ten, it will be good for them, too.

In co-regulatory connection,
Beth

Here is my longer letter and upcoming free co-regulation intro sessions.

https://mailchi.mp/d027d36b4f16/co-regulation-for-building-collaborative-culture-11025326

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