10/30 How to Release Emotions Trapped in Your Body: How to Process Emotions
Therapy in a Nutshell
Therapy in a Nutshell -Emma McAdam
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🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to therapy in a nutshell. I'm Emma McAdam, a licensed marriage and family |
| 0:06.7 | therapist, and this is the podcast where I condense mental health skills into bite-sized |
| 0:12.4 | nuggets of health. For a very long time, the field of psychology was dominated by psychologists who insisted that the way to change how you feel is to change how you think. |
| 0:27.6 | And honestly, that is true. It's at least partially true. When you change how you think, you can change how you feel. |
| 0:33.5 | But there's something deeper than thoughts. The older, more instinctual part of your brain actually has |
| 0:38.4 | superiority over your cortex. And modern research into trauma and anxiety work is showing that your |
| 0:44.9 | nervous system really runs the show. For many people, you can't just think your way out of emotions. |
| 0:52.0 | But when you calm your nervous system, you can then think clearly as well. |
| 0:57.0 | In this video, you're going to learn about the two states of your nervous system, |
| 1:01.0 | how emotions can get stuck in the body or nervous system, |
| 1:04.0 | and how to train your nervous system to be calmer |
| 1:07.0 | so that you can process through emotions, feel happier, and make better choices. |
| 1:12.0 | In the last video, we learned about the fight, flight, freeze response. |
| 1:15.2 | This is an automatic reaction in the nervous system to respond to threats. |
| 1:19.5 | But your beautiful, brilliant brain isn't just going to leave you hanging. |
| 1:23.3 | There are two automatic responses in your nervous system. |
| 1:26.2 | This natural alerting response, |
| 1:28.3 | the fight, flight freeze response, and a natural calming response. Now, quick review, when we feel |
| 1:34.8 | unsafe, our nervous system has a way to get activated in order to respond to threats. This is |
| 1:39.7 | the sympathetic nervous system response. This is what leads to the physiological changes in the body with the fight, flight, freeze response. Your nervous system response. This is what leads to the physiological changes in the body |
| 1:45.4 | with the fight-flight freeze response. Your nervous system also has a response to calm down. |
| 1:50.8 | This is called the parasympathetic response. I remember this by thinking para as in parachute. |
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