Understanding the Fight or Flight Stress Response

Understanding the Fight or Flight Stress Response

Join Emma Van Den Driest as she unpacks the biology of the fight or flight stress response, and explains the vital balance between the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems – understand better how chronic stress can contribute to long-term health challenges such as anxiety, fatigue, hormone imbalances, and more.

Learn how your body reacts to perceived threats through the Sympathetic Nervous System, and why the ancient survival mechanism, and the misidentification of threats in our modern world, may be leading to nervous system dysregulation and is no longer functioning to protect us.

This learning module encourages a better understanding of stress and how it can effect everything from digestion to immune function. Take charge of your nervous system, reduce the complications of chronic stress response activation, move back into parasympathetic dominance and find your calm.

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