This comprehensive slide deck exploration of mindfulness, metacognition, and traumatic training offers valuable insights for trauma recovery. By understanding how our past experiences shape our automatic responses, we can begin to rewire maladaptive behaviors. Mindfulness and metacognition serve as powerful tools for neutral self-observation, allowing us to question ingrained beliefs and make conscious decisions aligned with our present reality. The concept of “traumatic training” helps explain how childhood experiences can lead to lifelong patterns, while also offering hope for change through mindful awareness and intentional behavioral recalibration.
Posts in Category "Seasons"
Back to Basics: Defining “Mindfulness, MetaCognition, and Traumatic Training”
In our last BtB episode I used some poorly-understood words. Let's define "Mindfulness," "MetaCognition," and...
Defense Mechanisms: Help-Rejecting Complaining
Endless energy to voice problems, no attempt to find solutions? It's Help-Rejecting Complaining; the self-defense...
Defense Mechanisms: Help-Rejecting Complaining | Video+Transcript
Endless energy to voice problems, no attempt to find solutions? It's Help-Rejecting Complaining; the self-defense...
4.5 Video for all! The Basics of Trauma Recovery
This podcast episode explores the fundamental concepts of trauma recovery, addressing the sources of trauma, the importance of self-reflection, and the process of emotional learning. It discusses how childhood experiences, generational trauma, and societal influences shape our behaviors and thought patterns. The episode emphasizes the need for self-awareness, recontextualization of past experiences, and the identification of personal needs. It also touches on the potential role of spirituality in healing and the impact of technology addiction on recovery efforts. The overall message encourages listeners to take an active role in their own healing process.
Defense Mechanisms: Acting Out II | Video+Transcript
Here's the diagnostic criteria for "acting out" as a defense mechanism! Fig. 1 Defense Hierarchy Transcript: Hey...
Defense Mechanisms: Acting Out II
PS - Here's the diagnostic criteria for "acting out" as a defense mechanism! Fig. 1 Defense Hierarchy
Video+Transcript! Defense Mechanisms: Acting Out
Our first individual defense mechanism! Let's talk about Acting Out (the immediate transmutation of emotion to action...
Defense Mechanisms: Acting Out
Our first individual defense mechanism! Let's talk about Acting Out (the immediate transmutation of emotion to action...
Defense Mechanisms | Immature Level 1: The Action Defenses | Video+Transcript
Let's start working our way through the self-defense mechanisms that define our relationships and lives. First up, the...
Defense Mechanisms | Immature Level 1: The Action Defenses
Let's start working our way through the self-defense mechanisms that define our relationships and lives. First up, the...
Narc Abuse vs. Capitalistic Abuse | Defense Mechanisms | Video+Transcript
As we start discussing defense mechanisms, a Fucker thinks about the tactics used by employers and employees... and...
FYI: Domestic Abuse Victims and Terminal Illness Patients | Law Opens New Doors for Penalty-Free Retirement Account Distributions
I'm not a financial adivsor, I can't tell you what this new law means for you / your 401K... But I want to share this...
Dunning-Kruger vs. Reality | Transcript
In this preview of new things already underway… As we talk about reality and processing, the Dunning-Kruger Effect...
Dunning-Kruger vs. Reality
In this preview of new things already underway… As we talk about reality and processing, the Dunning-Kruger Effect...
REALITY TESTING (con’t of Type I and II Processing)
Picking up from our discussion of intellectualizing, rationalizing, narcs, and processing styles, let's talk about...