Up on the podcast this week we have Jonny Miller. Jonny is an emotional resilience researcher, host of the Curious Humans podcast and Founder of 'Nervous System Mastery' — a cohort based course for cultivating calm & agency over your internal state. This course seeks to rewire your neurobiology with evidence-backed protocols and equip you with a personal toolkit to increase calm, upgrade resilience and increase aliveness.
I met Jonny many years ago whilst we were both living in Canggu, Bali and have since followed his journey with intrigue, partaking too in his September 2022 cohort of Nervous System Mastery. My partner and I benefitted so significantly from the course individually and also as a couple in partnership. Understanding the language of our nervous system is immensely powerful and necessary for our optimal wellbeing and to give us greater agency in our lives, so I've been so looking forward to recording and sharing this conversation with Jonny.
In this episode:
- Jonny's experience with other modalities and how this led him into the nervous system
- what exactly is the nervous system and why should we care about it
- using the nervous system to avoid burn-out
- an overview of polyvagal theory and how this informs us on our nervous system states
- tools and practices that have helped Jonny and his clients, including longer term approaches to benefit our system over time, things to implement immediately whilst experiencing disregulation and techniques to keep working on our triggers when we are regulated and safe
- approaching our triggers as teachers and gifts to build our emotional resilience
- Jonny's observations of the correlation between nervous system state and our mental landscape
- nervous system in relationship: understanding the language of our partner's nervous system so we can form betterconnection and hold better space for our partners
- co-regulation, both the impact of being in positive community or a positive therapeutic dynamic upon our nervous system and also the negative impact of toxic environments
To contact Jonny:
Nervous System Mastery: https://nsmastery.com/
Twitter and IG: @jonnym1ller
References:
Dr Stephen Porges "Polyvagal Theory"
Peter Levine "Waking the Tiger"
