In this episode I respond to a question I received from someone who experiences depersonalization and derealization.

Specifically, the questioner shared that they don’t believe this is a thinking disorder and do I agree? 

This sent me on a bit of a nice rant  

I do agree. No thinking is “disordered” in the same way that no feeling is “bad”. The very common and innocent question reflects our cultural conditioning that sees so much experience as a problem to fix. That conditioning IS the problem, not the thoughts or feelings arising. 

This episode is not really about DPDR, so please check it out even if you aren’t sure what that is! 

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Beginning September 5th, I will be leading a very small group through The LSBC course.

You may know that I don’t lead this course anymore but because there were a number of people on the waitlist, I thought I would lead a small group through the curriculum this fall. You’ll get lifetime access to the full curriculum of video lessons, interviews, and animations, 6 live coaching calls with me, and access to our private forum for the 6 weeks.

If you’ve been wanting to do the live version of this course with my support, or you know someone who has, this is the time to do it! 

Go to https://dramyjohnson.com/events/fall-school-registration-page/ to register.

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