The STC Blog
Science-backed articles on autonomic regulation, polyvagal theory, somatic practices, and nervous system recovery.
Your nervous system is not fixed. The capacity it has right now to handle stress, return to calm, and feel safe in your own body is not a life sentence. It is a current state — shaped by…
The window of tolerance explains why you can handle stress sometimes and completely fall apart at others. Understanding yours is the foundation…
Your nervous system is constantly communicating with you. Not in words — in symptoms. In sensations, reactions, habits, and patterns that, once…
You've slept eight hours and woken more tired than when you closed your eyes. You've taken time off and come back more…
Most people have heard of fight or flight. Far fewer have heard of freeze — and almost no one is talking about…
80% of the signals in your vagus nerve travel upward — from your body to your brain, not the other way around.…
