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The Polyvagal IFS Workbook: Integrative Exercises to Map Your Nervous System States, Befriend Your Protective Parts, and Build Lasting Emotional Resilience - Couverture souple

Harrison, Kerry Luther

 
9781923646742: The Polyvagal IFS Workbook: Integrative Exercises to Map Your Nervous System States, Befriend Your Protective Parts, and Build Lasting Emotional Resilience

Synopsis

The Polyvagal IFS Workbook

Have you ever wondered why insight alone never seems to change your patterns? Why you can understand exactly what triggers you, yet still react the same way every time?

The answer lies in a missing connection that most self-help approaches overlook.

Your nervous system and your inner parts work together as one integrated system. When your body shifts into fight, flight, or shutdown mode, specific psychological parts take over before you can think. When protective parts are running the show, your nervous system stays activated no matter how many breathing exercises you try.

This workbook bridges the gap between body-based healing and parts work therapy for the first time in an accessible, practical format.

You'll discover the hidden link between your autonomic nervous system states and the different parts of your personality. You'll learn why regulation must come before relationship with your inner world. And you'll gain practical tools that work with both your biology and your psychology at the same time.

Inside this nervous system regulation and parts work workbook, you'll find:

A clear explanation of how your three nervous system states (ventral vagal, sympathetic, and dorsal vagal) create the conditions for different parts to emerge

Step-by-step exercises for identifying your fight parts, flight parts, freeze parts, and the vulnerable exiles they protect

Body-based regulation techniques specifically designed to help you access Self-energy and work with activated parts safely

The regulate-then-relate protocol that makes parts work actually stick

Practical tools for anxiety, depression, and trauma that address both body and mind together

Guided practices for internal co-regulation, where your calm core presence soothes your struggling parts

Tracking worksheets, reflection exercises, and daily practice templates for building lasting change

Quick reference cards and scripts for emergency regulation and parts stabilisation

This workbook is designed for you if:

You've tried talk therapy but your patterns keep repeating

Breathing exercises and meditation help temporarily but never create lasting change

You struggle with anxiety, depression, or trauma responses that feel beyond your control

You're interested in polyvagal theory, IFS, somatic healing, or nervous system regulation

You want practical exercises you can do on your own to build emotional resilience

You've felt stuck in fight, flight, or freeze responses and don't know how to get unstuck

You sense that healing requires something beyond just understanding your problems

What makes this approach different:

Most workbooks focus on either the body OR the mind. This workbook shows you how they work together—and why addressing only one never creates lasting transformation.

When you regulate your nervous system, you create the biological conditions for Self-leadership. When you build relationship with your parts, your regulation practices finally stick. The integration changes everything.

Each chapter combines teaching content with hands-on exercises. You'll map your personal nervous system patterns, meet your protector parts with curiosity, and build a sustainable daily practice that addresses both body and psychology.

Sixty-plus exercises guide you through awareness, skill-building, and integration. Tracking tools help you see your progress over time. Quick reference materials give you what you need in moments of activation.

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