About When Life Gets on Your Nerves - a Book about the Nervous System
Do you often get irritated, angry and have unwanted outbursts? Do you get feelings of wanting to escape or are you dependent on other people to like you? Do you feel powerless, tired and live a life without meaning? Knowledge about your nervous system, together with new behaviors, can help you feel secure and socially engaged in the world.
The nervous system doesn't tell you who you are or what you are, but how you are in the moment. Many problems, both physical and mental, are due to difficulties in regulating the nervous system. You can try to stop these learned patterns and replace them with new skills that are more helpful in the present. Instead of feeling helpless in the face of your body's reactions, you can actively try to balance yourself.
The book contains over 100 different illustrations. Important concepts from the Polyvagal Theory are described: social engagement, fight, flight, hypervigilance, freeze, fawn, dissociation and shut down. The nervous system is explained in detail in a simple way, often with methaphors from animals and what we as humans can learn from other mammals.
About the author
Elin Lundberg is a licensed psychotherapist, social worker and family therapist. She also has education in pedagogy that inspires her to convey her message in a simple and understandable way. For many years, she has been giving appreciated lectures on attachment and other subjects like hughly sensitivity. Elin has extensive experience of working with children, adolescents and adults at youth clinics and with family therapy, and now runs her own psychotherapy clinic. She lives in Uppsala with her husband, three children and dogs. She educates collagues in Animal Assisted Psychotherapy.
Other published books
• The polyvagal theory in pictures (Visto förlag 2019).
• Hold me, set me free – about child attachment to parents (Visto förlag 2019).
• Wanting but not being able to – about sex that hurts (Visto förlag 2016).
