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 Tagged "self-awareness"
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...
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 | 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...
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...
(lack of) Nuance x CPTSD | Video+Transcript
Y'all wanted to keep talking "implications of narc research," and ya've not been forgotten! Let's talk Nuance and...
How “Intelligent” are They Really? Type I and Type II Processing in Subtypes of Narcissists | Video+Transcript |
Narcissistic behavior and decision making: how smart ARE narcissists, really? How do they make decisions? And how do these thought processes differ between grandiose and vulnerable subtypes?
PS – Intellectualism –> Shoulding all over yerself | Video+Transcript
Did I forget to say something yesterday, or plan to make this most important point separately? Intellectualizing ->...
“So Fucking What?” | Narc-Integrity Supplement | Video+Transcript
So Fucking What Part 1 So Fucking What Part 2 Transcript: Well, hey there fuckers. Happy anniversary. This officially...
The Dangers of Intellectualization and Rationalization pt 2 | Video+Transcript
We have returned, for personality disorder x defense mechanisms Pt II. The major finding of our last show was…...
The Dangers of Intellectualization and Rationalization pt 2
The discussion continues! What's the REAL purpose of these common self-defense tactics? Advanced fuckers can check out...
The Dangers of Intellectualization and Rationalization pt I | Video+Transcript
Transcript: This is a section that got left out of our last big research episode on Disintegrated, integrity-lacking,...
The Dangers of Intellectualization and Rationalization pt I
References: Caligor E: Narcissism in the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual. In Ogrodniczuk, J: Treating Pathological...