2 Ways to Stimulate the Vagus Nerve — A Nerve Worth Triggering

A tool for managing acute stress

Jill (Conquering Cognitions)
4 min readNov 11, 2021

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Image by Ryan McGuire from Pixabay

This morning as I was driving my son to school, a deer darted into the road and then froze in place directly in my path. I slammed on the brakes and narrowly avoided hitting him. The buck and I looked at each other, and then he ran off into the woods while I remained frozen with huge eyes and my sweaty…

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Jill (Conquering Cognitions)

PsyD, Clinical Psychologist | Writer | Words in Human Parts, Forge, Better Humans | Life Lessons Supported by Science