You can have the perfect target, the right protocol, and a motivated client… and still hit a wall when protector parts step in. The shutdown. The anger. The talking around the issue. The “I don’t want to come back.” None of that is resistance. It’s protection. When we slow down enough to notice the polyvagal energy those parts are holding, everything shifts. Sympathetic activation might be ready for desensitization. Ventral vagal presence gives you dual attention and connection. But dorsal shutd
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You can have the perfect target, the right protocol, and a motivated client… and still hit a wall when protector parts step in. The shutdown. The anger. The talking around the issue. The “I don’t want to come back.” None of that is resistance. It’s protection. When we slow down enough to notice the polyvagal energy those parts are holding, everything shifts. Sympathetic activation might be ready for desensitization. Ventral vagal presence gives you dual attention and connection. But dorsal shutd
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