Building resiliency and learning to self-regulate your nervous system

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From Ari Whitten

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In this episode, I’m speaking with my close friend, and a coach of mine, Mental Strength Coach Siamon Emery.

Siamon has a powerful personal story that begins in an extremely stressful and traumatic environment with heroin-addicted parents, and then moves into his own personal transformation later in life, and then finding his calling as a Mental Strength Coach helping others to build resiliency and mental strength with his unique methodology of what he calls “building inner resources” and learning to self-regulate your own nervous system consciously.

His work has benefitted me tremendously (as I’ve been coached by him in recent months) and I hope this podcast will positively impact your and your family’s health too.

In this podcast, Siamon and I discuss:

His origins growing up in Australia with severely drug-addicted parents, how this left him “never feeling safe,” and how this childhood shaped his journey to doing the work he does now to help people build resilience and mental strength

How Siamon has helped me with my own ability to regulate my nervous system in stress- and fear-inducing situations

My lessons from 20 years of surfing and having to move through years of intense fears

Why the body rather than the mind is the key to regulating one’s nervous system and building resilience

“Top-down” vs. “Bottom-up” approaches, and why it’s critical to understand the difference

The thinkers that have inspired Siamon’s methods, like Peter Levine, Gabor Mate, Bessel van der Kolk, and Stephen Porges

How Polyvagal theory helps us understand the goal of regulating the nervous system

Why building “inner resources” is the key to resilience and mental strength

Siamon’s body-centric approach to building strength in the mind

Why it’s key to “lock in” the times you felt safe, loved, seen, and held

Why I love the quote “whatever one can be, one must be” and how it relates to the process of building mental strength

Why approaching the things you fear (as opposed to avoiding them) and moving to the edge of your comfort zone is so important to building mental strength and resilience. (And how these moments can act like a “gymnasium for the nervous system”)

Why the central task of building resilience revolved around taking conscious control of regulating your own nervous system, through the body

Why 80% of Fortune 500 CEOs (and over 94% of female CEOs) are former athletes

The distinction between “healing trauma” vs. “building resilience and mental strength”

Why it’s so critical for us to develop the ability to regulate our nervous system without doing anything – i.e. without needing to distract ourselves with certain behaviors or using substances