Date: January 23, 2024

This recording talks about how your mindset is related to your biology. which dates back 500,000 years ago. Valerie starts of with explaining the main functions and the role of the Dorsal Vagus Nerve. She continue with introducing the sympathetic nervous system also known as the limbic system’s where your emotions live and your responses of fight, flight, freeze or fawn to situations. As the evolution of brain the ventral vagus nerve’s appear which impacts the cortex also known as the thinking part of your brain. As the discussion continues into the impact trauma and stress affects the brain and explains why the memory gets affected. And knowing how to move from one to the other is important to understand as it relates to your own decision-making process.

If you ever wondered why you can’t remember something it could be that that memory was stored in your limbic system with your emotions and only through an emotional event like trauma that you remember it.