Root Cause — Episode 3: The Nervous System Is the First Teacher
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Root Cause — Episode 3: The Nervous System Is the First Teacher
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Episode 3: The Nervous System Is the First Teacher
Before we learn language, rules, or beliefs, our bodies learn something more fundamental: whether the world is safe.
In this episode of Root Cause, we explore the nervous system as the first and most powerful teacher — shaping how we respond to stress, connection, danger, and care long before conscious thought is involved.
Drawing on neuroscience, developmental psychology, and history, this episode looks at how prolonged exposure to war, famine, violence, migration, and instability trained human nervous systems for vigilance rather than calm — and how those adaptations were passed down through generations.
You’ll hear why the nervous system doesn’t automatically update when danger ends, why logic alone can’t regulate fear, and why modern life can feel overwhelming even in moments of relative safety.
This is not a conversation about what’s “wrong” with us.
It’s an exploration of how bodies learned to survive — and what it means to teach safety where it was never modeled before.
New episodes of Root Cause drop Wednesdays at 7 PM ET.