Lisa Botts

Search for "nervous system" and one of the first results is a guide from Cleveland Clinic, followed by a short list of questions other people are asking. They are good questions. Here they are, answered in plain language, with a link back to the Cleveland Clinic article so you can read the source yourself. What are the 7 functions of the nervous system? People search for seven. Cleveland Clinic's list has nine. Your nervous system sends messages between your brain and your body that regulate:...

We are more digitally connected than any generation before us, and somehow lonelier. It's a wild thought and it's a clue. Your nervous system was never built to be calmed by a text thread. It was built to be calmed by another nervous system, in the room, close enough to read. co-regulation Regulation was never meant to be a solo job. Co-regulation comes first, self-regulation is built out of it. A baby can't lower its own heart rate or talk itself out of distress. It borrows a calm nervous...

Your ear does more than hear. It's the one place on your entire body where the vagus nerve, the nerve most responsible for calming you down, actually reaches the surface. Once you understand that, a soundbath stops being something you just "feel relaxed after" and starts making physiological sense. The nerve in charge of settled The vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve in your body. It starts at your brainstem and travels down through your throat, your heart, your lungs, and your gut,...