We spend years optimizing everything on the outside while ghosting the one relationship running underneath all of it.

This episode kicks off July on The Raw Onion: the relationship between your brain and your body, the one most of us were never taught to notice, let alone tend to.

We get into:

• The vagus nerve and why most of its signals travel from body to brain, not the other way around
• The three nervous system states behind Dr. Stephen Porges' polyvagal theory
• How stress patterns get passed down through generations without a single shared experience
• Why the high achiever who undercharges or overdelivers might be running on inherited wiring rather than a confidence problem

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why your body registers the truth of a room, a person, or a meeting before your conscious mind catches up
• The three nervous system states (green, yellow, red) and how to notice which one you're running on most days
• How epigenetics allows a stress response to travel from one generation to the next
• Why familiar does not always mean safe, and how that shapes who and what we keep choosing
• What it actually takes to start listening to a body you've been overriding for years

🎙️ HOSTS: Stephanie Ohannesian, founder of Triage Coaching and Consulting, and Yoshie Barnett, Crossroads Coach at Lotus Flower Journeys

⏱️ CHAPTERS:

0:00 Welcome to July's series: The Relationship You Can’t Ghost

5:12 The brain and body as a two-way conversation

6:39 The vagus nerve and the 80/20 signal split

9:16 Polyvagal theory and the three nervous system states

11:10 Why so many of us live permanently in yellow

15:56 Epigenetics and inherited stress

20:09 The professional whose body panics before logic can step in

21:27 The entrepreneur who can't stop undercharging

23:49 A simple way to start listening again

25:27 What's ahead this July

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