How can we manage 'Covid conflict' at Christmas?
Channel: Miss V Martin
Date: 2021-12-25

A video with some 'serious fun' for everyone this Christmas.

Look out for the cats ...

I thought I'd offer some friendly advice about the position we all find ourselves in right now. Tucked in the middle is a bit of a biology lesson: Stephen Porges' polyvagal theory (nervous system activation in response to threat) will be familiar to some but new to many! Survival responses are a bit of a passion for me, so I hope you gain something from it.

Our capacity to pick up on other people's feelings, communicate, love, bond, eat, share space and work together for the good of all is as essential to our survival as the fight/flight/freeze responses we're more familiar with. But we cannot do these things wholeheartedly unless we feel safe. And that's my message.

Please enjoy it - and stay safe over your Christmas/new year period!

Animation by Vicki Martin www.vickimartin.co.uk using VideoScribe