Hello and welcome to the Human Connection podcast - (Polyvagal Informed Conversations) edition. I am your host Manal Aldabbagh and 

This podcast is a quest to understand ourselves and our relationships through the lens of our human connection: the nervous system. Started as conversations with Dr. Stephen Porges, the developer of The polyvagal Theory, and Deb Dana, the godmother of the theory, who presented it in concepts and language I can understand. What followed are a series of conversations with clinicians, coaches and individuals who found the polyvagal theory, and it informed their work and mission in life.

Through the lens of the nervous system, I find the world, especially relationships, easier to understand and enables me to embody compassion towards others. I consider these conversations my small contribution to bringing awareness to the importance of understanding and, as Deb says beautifully, "befriending our nervous system". I hope you enjoy these conversations as much as I did. Please share them with others and reach out if you want to continue this conversation, I would love to hear from you, and maybe we can record it for others.