Conversation Reimagined (17) Conversation Reimagined post-pandemic-lockdown with Dr. Stephen Porges

We all anxiously await returning to society – to life - post-pandemic lockdown. Key word is anxiously. Some are bursting to go play, interact, smile, have fun, and dare I suggest ... hug?! While the others are entrenched in deep anxiousness, trepidation, and fear. I worry ... will nasty reactions to social distancing continue post-lockdown? Will we continue to see extreme reactions? How will we respond? And how might we come to understand these extreme differences? On this week's episode, Dr. Andrea converses with behavioral neuroscientist, Dr. Stephen Porges, who is the creator of the Polyvagal Theory and is an expert on how the brain and body respond to threats of safety, whether in society, the workplace, at home, or conversation. Listen in as Dr. Porges discusses how our nervous system is simultaneously being onslaught by the incompatible demands of avoiding others and connecting with them, and that the resources of human contact we intuitively use to calm, may now signal threat.