Your child isn't refusing school — their nervous system is. Dr. Tony Ebel breaks down why school refusal, anxiety, and stomach aches are often the same neurological story with a different label at a different age.
If Sunday nights end in tears and Monday mornings turn into a parking lot battle, you've probably already been told it's anxiety, a phase, or a discipline problem that just needs firmer boundaries. Dr. Tony explains why those labels miss the real root cause: a nervous system stuck in sympathetic dominance, unable to access the calm, regulated state a child needs to walk through that classroom door.
00:00 Why "just push through it" misses what's really happening 02:00 Defiance, anxiety, and the real root cause underneath both 04:00 Why talk therapy and deep breathing stop working in the moment it matters most 07:00 The stomach ache connection: nervous stomach and neurodigestion 10:00 The vagus nerve: the rest, digest, and regulate nerve 13:00 How birth trauma and The Perfect Storm set the stage early 19:00 INSiGHT Scans: measuring the nervous system stress no one else is testing 21:00 What real progress looks like as a child heals
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