Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal model

Join Jan Winhall as she shares over 40 years of experience keeping her client's company. Her clinical work has led her to understand that what is called "addiction" is an adaptive attempt to regulate emotional states. These behaviours do not come from sickness: they come from a bodily response to threat and a wired-in mechanism of survival.

Jan shares how the The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model came to be. Using the Six F's Flow, Flock, Fun, Freeze and Fixate and the Client Version of the model Jan walks through what happens on our nervous systems in response to trauma and connection. Guest Ann Dowsett Johnston, Author Drink: The Intimate Relationship between Women and Alcohol, joins Jan for as they Focus together.