EPS: 3 - The Nervous System – What’s Really Happening Beneath the Behaviour
Rewriting the Rules: Raising Dogs with Heart, Science and Soul
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Show Notes
🎙️ Episode 3: The Nervous System – What’s Really Happening Beneath the Behaviour
In this episode of Rewriting The Rules, we explore what’s really going on under the surface when our dogs seem anxious, overwhelmed, excited, or "reactive."
We take a deep dive into the nervous system- fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and shutdown- and how understanding these states helps us support dogs more compassionately.
I’ll guide you through how these survival responses are not behavioural problems, but biological reactions - and what we can do instead of rushing to fix or suppress them.
We’ll also explore emotional dysregulation, why some dogs escalate faster than others, and how trauma and chronic stress shape the nervous system over time.
You’ll come away with a richer understanding of your dog’s internal world, and a new lens to view their behaviour through: not as disobedience, but as communication.
Further resources
Free Learning:
Take The Next StepOur Programmes – Work With Bethany One To One
Rewriting the Rules: The CDD Mentorship
Surrey & Surrounding Areas- Programmes
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Let’s raise dogs with dignity. Let’s teach through connection. Let’s begin the conversation.