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S2E8:Why High Achiever Burnout Follows You Through Your Front Door | The Autonomic Transition Protocol
Do you snap at small things within minutes of getting home, or go completely flat the moment you walk through the door? This episode addresses burnout and high achievers directly, showing why your sympathetic nervous...
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S2E7:Why Your Nervous System Regulation Breaks Down at Home After a Stressful Day | The Boardroom-to-Bedroom Mirror Audit
Do you stay perfectly calm through a hard day at work, only to feel your chest tighten the second someone you love takes too long to respond? This RAW Regulation episode walks you through nervous system regulation in...
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S2E6:Why Burnout at Work Turns Into Shutdown at Home | Relational Nervous System Science
Are you calm, composed, and completely in control at work, only to shut down, snap, or go silent the moment you're home with the people you love? In this episode of The Regulated Life, Dr. Erica Carter-Folk breaks...
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S2E5: The Ventral Reset | How to Come Back Into Connection After Protection Mode
Today's RAW Regulation tool is the Ventral Reset — a vagal activation practice designed to bring the ventral vagal complex online before repair, reconnection, or intimate conversation. After a week of...
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S2E4: The Static Melt | Coming Back Into Your Body When You've Gone Numb
Today's RAW Regulation tool is the Static Melt — a proprioceptive grounding practice designed to bring the nervous system out of dorsal vagal freeze and back into present-moment orientation. Designed for The Bunker...
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S2E2: The Jaw Release | A Somatic Reset for The Armored and The Appeaser
Today's RAW Regulation tool is the Jaw Release — a somatic practice targeting the masseter muscle and the autonomic nervous system's holding patterns. Designed specifically for The Armored and The Appeaser Sentry...
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S2E1: Why Your Body Keeps Repeating the Same Relationship Pattern | Relational Nervous System Science
Is your body running a relationship pattern your mind never consciously chose? In this Method Monday episode, Erica Carter-Folk breaks down the Relational Nervous System Science behind why high-functioning adults...
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Episode 74: RAW Regulation | The Repair After a 'No': How to Hold a Boundary Without Losing the Connection
The hard part isn't saying no. The hard part is staying present in the silence after. In this closing RAW Regulation of Biology of Boundaries week, Erica Carter-Folk teaches The Repair After a 'No' — a somatic...
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Episode 73: RAW Regulation | The Throat Clearing: A Somatic Practice for When You Feel the 'No' Stuck in Your Chest
The 'no' is there. You can feel it. And then the throat constricts and a yes comes out instead. In today's RAW Regulation, Erica Carter-Folk teaches The Throat Clearing — a vagal toning practice using sound, breath,...
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Episode 72: RAW Regulation|The 'Wait' Script: How to Pause a Request to Check Your Somatic Capacity
The most regulated thing you can do before saying yes is to pause. In today's RAW Regulation mini-episode, Erica Carter-Folk teaches The 'Wait' Script — three versions of a strategic pause that gives your nervous...
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Episode 71: RAW Regulation|The Gut-Check: A 60-Second Somatic Tool to Tell the Difference Between Compliance and Consent
Before your next yes — try this. In today's RAW Regulation mini-episode, nervous system educator Erica Carter-Folk teaches The Gut-Check: a sixty-second somatic practice to help you read your body's pre-cognitive...
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Episode 69: RAW Regulation|Here are the Friday RAW Regulation show notes: FRIDAY RAW REGULATION Episode Title: The Final Reset: A 60-Second Celebration of 12 Weeks of Work
This is not a goodbye. This is a threshold.
Before we cross it — we pause. We complete. We let the nervous system register what it has actually moved through over these twelve weeks. Because completion is not just a...
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