If you're ready to ease anxiety, cultivate safety, and deeply connect with yourself, The Nervous System Workbook by Deb Dana is your ultimate guide. This powerful resource breaks down Polyvagal Theory into practical exercises that help you regulate your nervous system and find a sense of calm in everyday life. Through insightful reflections and hands-on activities, you’ll learn to harness the wisdom of your body, manage stress, and invite more peace into your daily experience. Whether you're healing from trauma or simply seeking balance, this workbook offers invaluable tools to navigate life's challenges with ease. I highly recommend it for anyone looking to build resilience and reconnect with their inner calm!

Really loved the breakdown of the surveillance system and examination of our physical response to stress and our environment. The book leaves readers with a great and digestible toolkit for stress and self regulation

This is such a great workout to help with nervous system regulation and learning more about the Polyvagal Theory. Thanks to NetGalley and Sounds True Publishing for the eARC. As someone who is in therapy this has been a helpful addition to do on my own as "homework." I found this workbook to really informative, while also allowing me to really step back and think about my answers and how I would respond. I really appreciated that the author, Deb Dana, filled in her own examples on the blanks. This really helped me get a feel for how to get into the mind frame for each question. This is a book I plan to keep on hand not only for the information, but to revisit as my answers change in the future!

Highly recommend this workbook! I love Deb Dana and everything about her work. Though I had prior knowledge/passion around polyvagal theory when starting this workbook, I would say that, as intended, this workbook is accessible to anyone, no matter their level of understanding of polyvagal theory. Deb Dana has a very poetic way of writing and the science is explained intuitively. I really appreciated the flow and progression of the questions/prompts. The embodiment of the prompts also helped me integrate the concepts more deeply. This workbook is more of a bottom-up approach, whereby you're looking at how the nervous systems impacts your emotions/thoughts (versus a top-down approach, which might focus more on your thoughts). As a clinician, I can see this being very useful in session with clients.

Thank you NetGalley and Sounds True Publishing for this ARC!