S2E20 Drama Club vs Debate Club A Strategic Metaphor

03/28/24 • 32 min

I LOVE A METAPHOR!
They're some of the best ways for us to convey meaning and embody understanding without a lot of confusion.
Enter my own Drama Club vs. Debate Club as a way to help our mindbody navigate the metabolically taxing and cognitive overload of uncertainty.
We all have survival strategies, habituated ways of relating to our internal and external sensory world. Our brain has a meaning making mandate which it pursues through the nervous system and cognition to understand the world around it, after all it's encased in a skull, and senses are storytellers of sensemaking.
So I've developed a simple and hopefully fun construct of drama club vs. debate club to help you step outside of the endless suffering of overthinking and sensory + emotional avoidance, as well as how to use logic and cognition to help you decrease the stress response that comes with uncertainty, confusion and fear.
If we learn to know and love our meta cognitive strategies we can create a welcome foundation for change. Enjoy!
Articles about The Neural Story Net and the Meaning Making Mandate in our brains.
https://mediax.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Haven.pdf
https://storyhow.com/blog/why-you-need-to-know-about-the-neural-story-net/
Uncertainty + The Mind
https://nesslabs.com/uncertain-mind

Uncertainty and stress: Why it causes diseases and how it is mastered by the brain.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301008217300369
Articles about Interoception:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/15/the-hidden-sense-shaping-your-wellbeing-interoception

Interoception and Emotion
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28950976/

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Interoception and Emotion
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28950976/

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S2E19 Autogenic Training for Pain + Anxiety

This week's episode is another practice. This time it's a follow along repeating sentence relaxation + repetition practice called Autogenic Training.

I'm reading to you a script I discovered in a great overview document from the VA.

I also share the research about this practice showing that it's a very effective self led activity to help with pain + fear reduction. Which of course are the two main issues with neuroplastic pain.
Here's the PDF from the VA -
https://www.va.gov/WHOLEHEALTHLIBRARY/docs/Autogenic-Training.pdf

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S2E21 MBS + IFS with Phil de la Haye

Phil de la Haye is an Internal Family Systems practitioner and coach with a particular interest in the mindbody connection and chronic physical symptoms.

Phil has his own history of chronic pain recovery and he’s passionate about supporting others through their own process of healing. He and I have a fantastic conversation that can only happen when two people who speak the same language and share some overlaps in our experiences of chronic pain and our healing as well as how we help our clients feel better. We talk about the impacts of stress on various communities like queer + trans people and the overwhelming overlaps of pain conditions and medically unexplained symptoms that we are seeing.
If you've heard of IFS but have never thought about applying it to MindBody Healing work. Phil shares how IFS can help and his three things that everyone with pain should know.
You can join Phil's facebook group here -
Phil de la Haye: IFS and Mindbody Healing
His IFS facebook page with some resources -
https://www.facebook.com/phildelahayeifs

Instagram -
https://www.instagram.com/phildelahayeifs/

Check out his website -
https://phildelahaye.com

Link to the research article about chronic pain + sexual minorities -
https://journals.lww.com/pain/fulltext/2023/09000/chronic_pain_among_u_s__sexual_minority_adults_who.8.aspx?

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Website - https://www.thecuriositycure.com