
Episode 19: Emotional Portaling
12/20/22 • 53 min
- Reenactment affecting client retention
- Yawning in trauma-focused therapy
- Infantilizing do alleviate parents’ anxiety
- Don’t be a dick
- Viewing identity as a developmental sprectrum
- Extreme political views reenacting childhood trauma
- What’s going on with trucks with flags?
- Ideology being substituted for identity
- Emotional portals to visit attachment ruptures
- AIP
- Emotional touchstone creating memory network
Resource Recommendations: Robin Shapiro Ego State Training
Have any questions or insights about this episode? Reach out to us at [email protected]
- Reenactment affecting client retention
- Yawning in trauma-focused therapy
- Infantilizing do alleviate parents’ anxiety
- Don’t be a dick
- Viewing identity as a developmental sprectrum
- Extreme political views reenacting childhood trauma
- What’s going on with trucks with flags?
- Ideology being substituted for identity
- Emotional portals to visit attachment ruptures
- AIP
- Emotional touchstone creating memory network
Resource Recommendations: Robin Shapiro Ego State Training
Have any questions or insights about this episode? Reach out to us at [email protected]
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Episode 18: Mental Gymnastics
Eli, Evan, and Melissa take a forensic look at reaction formation, emblem leakage, and cognitive dissonance within Bill Cosby’s career and criminal case and the cost of “winners and losers” within the legal and two-party payer healthcare systems. What do we need to be more honest with ourselves and others? What would it take to be more open to criticism and self-reflection and make peace with perfectionism?
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Episode 20: Your Body is Communicating
Evan and Eli support Melissa and process her gut reaction to clients’ stories, exploring her own counter-transference. This episode also includes topics of:
- Using cuss words when you pray
- Affairs don’t happen in a vacuum
- Counter transference informing therapeutic process
- Negative core belief of defective shame
- Blowing away bullshit to find authentic self
- Trauma responses- filing into longterm storage via the Amygdala to hippocampus
- Victimization soup
- When women cheat
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