We walk through the world and assume we know who we are. We trust our memories, our perceptions. We trust the internal sense that tells us something happened, that something is true, that an experience belongs to us. Most of us never stop to ask what makes that possible. We usually notice those systems only
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A Preliminary Synthesis in Polyvagal Acupuncture® and Polyvagal Massage™ Dr. Jennifer Moffitt, DTCM, DNCCAOM, L.Ac. Certified Primitive Reflex Clinical Specialist (CPRCS) This article takes a 2011 peer-reviewed neuroscience paper as its primary text and develops its clinical implications for the developmental trauma population addressed across this series. It is intended to serve as the academic
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A Preliminary Synthesis in Polyvagal Acupuncture® and Polyvagal Massage™
© 2025 J. Moffitt. Registered U.S. Copyright Office. Polyvagal Acupuncture®. A core limitation in many conventional “top-down” trauma therapies is that they target cognition and emotion while the underlying Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) remains locked in a state of high arousal. This narrative proposes that true, sustainable healing requires a “bottom-up” restoration of the ANS,
© 2025 J. Moffitt. Registered U.S. Copyright Office. Polyvagal Acupuncture®. My first introduction to deep somatic work was over 30 years ago with a clinician who had abandoned her psychology license to integrate hands-on therapies. With three PhDs, she realized that dissociated trauma survivors were cognitively processing their pain without ever truly feeling it in their
