124 - Nervous Systems, Bottom-Up Safety, & Learning from Each Other (feat. Nia Baker)

This week we talk with therapist Nia Baker, who specializes in working with people who have experienced trauma. She talks about working with our nervous systems, how we can use bottom-up processes to create safety, and what this means for our communities.

Things we mention in this episode/other resources:
- Radically Open DBT
- How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist by Andrew Newberg
- My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
- the Spiritual First Aid Summit

Connect with Nia on Instagram or see her artwork on her website.

Quotes:
- “An emotional trauma is how the nervous system is impacted through words & responses related to feeling safe.”
- “Neuroscience doesn’t make it possible for people to be adaptive. People have always been adaptive.”

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Intro/Outro music for this episode is ‘Fall Down’ by Rivers & Robots.