Our Nervous Systems in the Time of COVID

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March 30, 2021

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The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight or freeze response.

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Our Nervous Systems in the Time of COVID

"The light at the end of the COVID tunnel is tenuously appearing yet many of us feel as exhausted as at any time in the past year. Memory problems; short fuses; fractured productivity; sudden drops into despair. Were at once excited and unnerved by the prospect of life opening up again. Clinical psychologist Christine Runyan explains the physiological effects of a year of pandemic and social isolation whats happened at the level of stress response and nervous system, the literal mind-body connection. And she offers simple strategies to regain our fullest capacities for the world ahead." { read more }