Category: Science of Therapy
What Predictive Processing Says Emotion Is: A New Look at Your Internal World
What predictive processing says emotion is We often think of emotions as things that happen to us—unexpected waves of feeling that wash over us without ...
Your Vocabulary of Emotion Words Is Software for Your Brain
How Precise Emotion Words Act as “Zip Files” for Your Mind We are usually taught that emotion words are just sticky notes—labels we slap on ...
The Mute Button for Your Mind: A New Way to Think About Emotional Flourishing
Have you ever been overwhelmed by an intense emotion, urgent craving, or a wave of panic? If so, was your first instinct to fight it? ...
PTSD: Your Nervous System Isn’t “Out of Balance”—It’s Out of Context
Why Your Brain Misreads Today’s Body Signals Using Yesterday’s Maps If you have ever tried to “just relax” during a panic attack or a flashback, ...
Stop Trying to “Hack” Your Nervous System (It’s Not a Machine)
The Nervous System Regulation Myth If you scroll through TikTok or Instagram lately, you’ve probably seen the “mind-body coaches.” They tell you that your anxiety ...
The Secret Architecture of Your Mind: 12 Nuggets for Understanding Why You Feel Stuck or Detached
Have you ever felt like you are living life on “automatic pilot,” or that you’re viewing the world as if you are separate from it, ...
You Are a Model of Beliefs: The Science of Self and Emotional Growth
How Your Beliefs Shape Your Sense of Self and Emotional World What if I told you that you are a collection of beliefs, shaped by ...
Why You Feel Good or Bad: Understanding Affect in Body-Based Psychotherapy
Core Affect aka MOOD Your mood—whether you feel good or bad, energized or drained—tells a story about your body and mind. In my body-based psychotherapy ...
The Roots of Your Reality: How Babies Learn to Make Sense of the World
The Fascinating Way Fetal Exploration Shapes Your Brain’s Understanding of Reality Have you ever thought about how you started to make sense of the world? ...
The Myth of Neuroception
The Myth of Automatic Detection There’s this concept in the polyvagal theory called neuroception. And the claim of polyvagal is that with this process of ...
