01/08/2024
“Our bodies thrive in the context of safety. This safety is optimized with another “appropriate mammal”. Many people with a trauma history, especially early childhood trauma, do extraordinarily well co-regulating with cats, dogs or horses, as their nervous system through its associations don’t want to be near people.”
~ Stephen Porges, Biology Of Trauma Summit, 2022
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