What Causes Depression, and What Can Help?

Depression is a collapse of the nervous system, when we are so deprived of life-energy we cannot sustain participation in life. Neuroscience and resonant language can help us understand the latest research about what causes depression, and what can help.

Understanding poly-vagal theory, emotional circuitry, and the nervous system state changes that are part of depression helps us look at our brains and say: of course!

Interventions for depression include time-traveling with empathy for aloneness; freeing the seeking circuit to do it’s job; learning self-warmth and needs-based meditation, healing ancestral trauma, discovering and releasing unconscious contracts, detoxing the critical default mode network, and balancing the endocannabinoid system.