Announcing Deb Dana’s New Book

The Nervous System Workbook: Practical Exercises to Ease Anxiety, Find Safety, and Come Home to Yourself Using Polyvagal Theory (Sounds True Inner Workbooks)

Release Date: November 5, 2024

A guide to understand and befriend your unique nervous system—and find your way back to safety and calm in times of stress. In her latest book, Deb shares more than 50 short practices and exercises that teach you to understand how your personal nervous system works and how to find more safety and ease within yourself.

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Additional Published Works by Deb Dana

Polyvagal Card Deck: 58 Practices for Calm and Change (Norton, Aug 2022)

Offering clients easy-to-implement exercises and strategies for managing wherever they are on the autonomic ladder.

The cards have been thoughtfully created to provide polyvagal concepts and prompts grouped into three areas: 1) the autonomic hierarchy: ventral, sympathetic, and dorsal; 2) a section about regulating the system; and 3) a bonus section exploring play, stillness, and change. Clinicians can use the cards at the beginning of a session to frame the work or at the end to create a plan for ongoing work; clients can reach for the cards any time they want some nervous system support.

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The Polyvagal Flip Chart  (Norton, October 2020)

Offers therapists a low tech–high impact, interactive way to explain polyvagal theory to clients.

When clients are stuck in the cognitive experience of their story, an explanation of polyvagal theory helps to bring their attention to the autonomic experience― to bring the importance of the biology of their experience back into awareness. Yet polyvagal theory can be challenging and intimidating to explain. This tool offers therapists an easy, standardized way to support clients in understanding the role of the autonomic nervous system in their lives. Using a flip chart makes psycho- education an interactive experience. Therapists can feel confident in teaching their clients polyvagal theory by following the chart.

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Articles

Psychotherapy Networker Reaching Out in Nervous Times: Polyvagal Theory Encounters Teletherapy

Psychotherapy Networker The Touch Taboo: Are We Missing a Vital Source of Healing?

Psychotherapy Networker How to Help Our Nervous Systems During a Pandemic...Finding Ventral Vagal for Our Clients and Ourselves

Family Court Review The Application of The Polyvagal Theory to High Conflict Co-Parenting Cases 

Publications

Author of The Nervous System Workbook: Practical Exercises to Ease Anxiety, Find Safety, and Come Home to Yourself Using Polyvagal Theory (Non-Clinical, Guide and Exercises for Curious People) Sounds True

Co-author of Polyvagal Prompts: Finding Connection and Joy through Guided Exploration (Non-Clinical, Guide and Exercises for Curious People) W.W. Norton

Author of Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety: (Introductory Guide & Nervous System Tools for Curious People) W.W. Norton

Creator of The Polyvagal Card Deck: 58 Practices for Calm & Change (Easy-to-Implement Exercises & Strategies for All) W.W. Norton

Author of Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory (Non-Clinical, Intro for Curious People) W.W. Norton

Author of Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices (Practical Guides and Exercises) W.W. Norton

Creator of The Polyvagal Flip Chart: (Interactive Resource for Practitioners to Bring PVT into Client Sessions.) W.W. Norton

Creator of the Audio Program Befriending Your Nervous System (For Curious People, a Non-Clinical Program for All levels of Interest.) Sounds True

Co-editor with Stephen Porges - Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal Informed Therapies W.W. Norton

Author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation  (Unique PVT Foundations for Clinicians / Practitioners) W.W. Norton