How To Regulate Your Nervous System: Anxiety, Relationships, and the Baggage You Didn't Ask For | Dr. Bruce Perry

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody, how we doing? One way for me to judge the power of an interview that I've done for this show is how voluminous are my notes afterward. Using that yardstick, the interview you're about to hear was a very powerful one.

Let me start by giving credit to my wife, Dr. Bianca Harris, who is my co-interviewer for this episode. She suggested that we uh recruit Dr. Bruce Perry as a guest after she read a book that Bruce co-authored with Oprah Winfrey. It's called What Happened to You?

And it's about in part the radical shift in perspective that can come when we change our question from what's wrong with you to what happened to you. We can apply this question to ourselves and to other people. Essentially, we're talking here about trauma, but not just big T trauma, a concept that may not apply to everyone, but also small T trauma, what my friend Dr. Mark Epstein calls the trauma of everyday life, the trauma that comes from living in a world characterized by impermanence and entropy.

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