Talking Your Way to Change: A Mental Health and Psychology Podcast

This guided meditation takes you on a journey to inner most core self. The observing self. When you are connected to this part of yourself you can begin to influence your body. Our observing self is the part of our self that can register what our instinctual self wants to do AND choose to practice a different thought, behavior, or emotion. One that is more adaptive.

This guided meditation takes you on a journey to inner most core self. The observing self. When you are connected to this part of yourself you can begin to influence your body. Our observing self is the part of our self that can register what our instinctual self wants to do AND choose to practice a different thought, behavior, or emotion. One that is more adaptive.   

Psychological resistance is often unconscious and blocks our ability to change. It can be baffling, frustrating, and threatens the healing process. However, when used in a therapeutic manner it often leads to new growth and healing. However, it is a common natural part of being human. People who are seeking psychotherapy are a unique position of being able to examine in what ways they self-sabotage or get in their own way. 

The story you tell others and yourself about your experiences in life begin with your ANS. It is helpful to practice how you shape your story. Take a minor irritation that you experienced and try telling it from the Safe and Connected State, the Fight or Flight state, and or Dorsal Vagal. You are the protagonist in your life story. You make choices. One of the choices you make is the story you tell yourself. The more habituated your story telling is the more likely you will fall into the traps of black and white or a perpetrator/victim stance, win/lose. 

In this episode I give examples of everyday life events and trauma can trigger the process of neuroception and ANS response. I give some ideas for strategies of how to move from sympathetic into ventral and how to move up the ladder from dorsal state. 

Learning about your ANS could change your life. 

Using Belleruth Naparstek's guided imagery script an exercise for self protection, support, and love. 

https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Heroes-Survivors-Trauma-They/dp/0553383744/ref=asc_df_0553383744/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312039018893&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12416860290393824089&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019559&hvtargid=pla-494331928777&psc=1

The body scan can help you remain more connected to yourself and others. 

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This episode relates how Joseph Campbell's Hero Journey nd how Dr. Clarissa Estes Women Who Run with Wolves La Loba-The Wolf Woman relates to the self-healing process in therapy. Stories and myths are can give us hope, interpretation, understanding, and wisdom all psychological capacities that that beyond emotion regulation skills. 

Estés, Clarissa Pinkola. (1992). Women who run with the wolves : myths and stories of the wild woman archetype. New York :Ballantine Books,