Stephen Porges, PhD on Helping Clients Regulate Distressing Emotions

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For many clients, stress can feel like a natural byproduct of having a family, holding down a job, pursuing an advanced degree, or keeping up with the hectic pace of life in general.
The problem is, when stress becomes chronic it can impact their brain, body, and virtually every aspect of their life.
So how do we help clients stay strong and centered in the face of adversity - especially when they start to feel like they’re staring down new demands or challenges every day?
In the video above, Stephen Porges, PhD shares two ways we can resource clients to better cope with distress.
This video comes from the NICABM blog. For more information or to watch more videos like this one visit: www.nicabm.com/blog/?del=YTOr...

[@samirasaoud4502]

Quiet places and personal spaces. I love it!

[@bellakrinkle9381]

Didn't this Doctor create a system of healing using the Vagal Nerve? It's how I evaluate my days. I find this approach to best describe my daily sense of well being, now that I have permanently removed the lower level of the 3. I'd love to hear him explain his theory. It's accurate!

[@lilabukvic4216]

I wish to get help from this beautiful doctor.

[@ravenwild5184]

So grateful for your work. 🎉

[@nicabm]

Thank you for the kind regards!

[@judemaleski4853]

Thanks, that was simple and concise and effective

[@re-combobulate2358]

Thanks, very reinforcing.

[@mike8669]

Thank you for your helpfull, talk thanks a million

[@simonanardi4312]

Sounds wonderful. I am challenged by the state a beloved person finds herself in because I couldn’t find the right “language” to get to her yet. I’ve been trying for years now to speak about breathing, and positive images and resources from her past, and retiring to a quiet space, but nothing seems to reach her ears and nothing seems to give her relief. Sure enough she is not me and might have different needs. One thought here seems very important to me: being with people might be too much sometimes, but being alone triggers other kinds of fears and pains, and that’s how someone might find herself stuck between two dreads.
I’ve been wondering if there are some touches - if the person agrees to be touched in that moment - that could activate the vagal system in order to alleviate a challenging situation quite quickly

[@Heyu7her3]

She also must seek it out for herself

[@simonanardi4312]

We know that certain people are unable to recover because they think about their parents who experienced war and poverty etc., or about suffering populations around the globe, and therefore they feel guilty when they think about feeling well themselves! And the other side could be that a person finds her/his identity in depression and grief, at least to a certain point, so that they don’t want to imagine to get better because they fear they’d lose themselves if they would

[@FolaTheMaverick]

What does did u just say in plain English!

[@Headsavvy]

That was plain English. Essentially, learn strategies to help you when you’re triggered. These strategies include both the mind and the body.

[@FolaTheMaverick]

Was being not being facetious. The message been relied is very important, however, it is lost behind the jargon of the the subject matter. An oversight, I believe professionals or experts make when speaking on their subject of expertise. English is NOT everybody’s first language hence my question!
Even your response, Hero’s Journey Therapy, though an attempt to help, thank u. Did not. Why? You still have not informed us the ways or explain how one can deal with the feelings in ones body when a person has uncomfortable feelings in their body on seeing , smelling or hearing certain events? ( plain English)! Get it?

[@Headsavvy]

@@FolaTheMaverick you’re on the right path with your curiosity and questions. However, your expectation of understanding a challenging multi-layered topic that even many mental health professionals don’t yet understand in a RUclips comments section, is a bit unrealistic. There are many options out there to begin to understand this on a more foundational level. For example, mindfulness, and Vipassana meditation would be a good place to begin. The speaker is also discussing his theory and book Polyvagal Theory which might make sense for you to read in your native language? Just a thought.

[@kevintherandomgamer7020]

"Focus on your breathing to change your body's response to stress" and "use guided visualization to regulate the mind" is the most simplistic way for me to explain the big topic of emotional regulation. If you are interested in learning more, google the concept of Distress Tolerance from DBT therapy. It might explain it in a more simple form as polyvagal theory (the above video is the founder of polyvagal theory) is more complex than DBT, in my experience

[@Nyx773]

@@FolaTheMaverick This channel is aimed at professionals, not clients. Hence the appropriate heavy use of jargon.