EP 178: What Your Eyes Reveal About Your Attachment & Stress | Dr. Bryce Appelbaum

Vision is one of the primary signals your nervous system reads for safety or danger. Under stress, peripheral vision collapses and the body locks into central focus. Dr. Bryce Appelbaum walks through three eye exercises that begin retraining the eye-brain connection and the felt sense of safety.

➡️ Full show notes: https://www.biologyoftrauma.com/post/vagus-nerve-and-vision-how-your-eyes-signal-safety-to-your-nervous-system

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• 01:21 — What is neuro-optometry, and how is it different from a regular eye exam
• 03:46 — How do your eyes shape how you move through the world?
• 14:05 — Can an old concussion still be affecting you years later?
• 23:09 — How does early caregiving shape vision development?
• 33:31 — Eye exercise 1: How do you do peripheral pointing?
• 41:24 — Eye exercise 2: How do you do eye push-ups?
• 46:26 — Eye exercise 3: How do you do eye stretches and the 20-20-20 rule?
• 50:06 — What foods support eye and brain health?

Resources/Guides:

• The Biology of Trauma® Professional Certificate Training trains health and helping practitioners in the same framework Lacey works from. If this episode resonated with how you want to work with clients, this is the path.

➡️ Full show notes with links and resources: https://www.biologyoftrauma.com/post/vagus-nerve-and-vision-how-your-eyes-signal-safety-to-your-nervous-system

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