We believe in functional mental wellness, a holistic approach to mental health, we know that there's hope for those of us who have experienced trauma, even profound trauma. And that's why we created the universe is your therapist podcast, we believe whether you call it God, the universe, source, unity or love that there is something much greater than us that conspires for our good, we envision a world of healing and connection. And we teach you simple, but powerful practices that integrate your mind, body and spirit so that you can come home to your highest self and your truest identity, you are not broken, you are loved, and you can heal. My name is Amy Hoyt, and together with my sister, Lena, we will take you on a journey of healing and self discovery. So what is a nervous system? If you had talked to me about calming my nervous system a few years ago, I would have thought it sounded great, but I would have have no idea what you're talking about. So a nervous system is actually our, it's our command center in the body. And it sends out messages to our body, and basically tells us when I mean, there's a lot of stuff that's automated. So it's not like we're consciously aware, but breathing, heart rate, movement, anything that you can think of autonomic or not autonomic, where we're having more of an awareness is going to be conducted through the nervous system. And so it's incredibly important. And then what happens when it's dysregulated is that the messaging center gets a little off, and it starts to create a propensity to stay in our limbic brain. And Elaine is going to talk to us a little bit about our our brain. And what we do know is that the limbic brain is something we don't want to live in, because that's our fight flight, freeze brain. And we don't want to be constantly thinking there's predators out to get us. And so when our nervous system gets dysregulated, we're doing a lot of reacting, and a lot of unconscious reacting. And that's where we find some of the schisms between our nervous system and our business or our professional life. And so that's what we're going to talk about today. So when we feel dysregulated, in the nervous system, what we're talking about is, you'll have like a really big reaction to something that maybe isn't that big of a deal, or have a very under aroused reaction. And under reaction to something really serious. There are other symptoms of a dysregulated nervous system that we'll go over throughout our presentation. But that's kind of just a basic way that you can tell what's going on with your nervous system. And Lena, do you want to talk about the nervous system in the brain?