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Regulation must precede reflection: cognitive insight fails while a nervous system is in defensive dominance.

Drawn from what Arielle Schwartz said

SubjectPolyvagal theory

Polyvagal theory Stephen Porges’s account of the vagus nerve as the switch between defence and social connection. Widely used in trauma therapy and contested in physiology.

On the topicWhat makes psychotherapy work?under our view: Nothing lands until the nervous system settles, so the body comes before the insight

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What Arielle Schwartz actually said

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  1. Arielle Schwartz

    Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado

    Polyvagal theory provided me with a coherent framework for understanding why cognitive insight alone often fails when a nervous system is in defensive dominance. In such states, higher-order cortical processes are functionally constrained.

    Where this was said

    ↗Clinical Reflections on the Critique on Polyvagal Theory proposed by Grossman et al., (2026)drarielleschwartz.com

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