115 Why It’s So Important To Tell Your Story To An Attuned Listener with Curt Thompson

The Place We Find Ourselves

Adam Young

Hope, Christian, Christianity, Healing, Story, Trauma, Psychotherapy, Mental Health, Restoration, Heart, Sexualabuse, Health & Fitness, Adamyoung, Therapy, Attachment, Interpersonalneurobiology, Religion & Spirituality, Limbicsystem, Neuroscience

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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I am joined today by Christian neuroscientist Curt Thompson. In this vulnerable conversation, Curt and I talk about: why our brains change when we share our story with another human being who is attuned to us, why engaging your story is the single best way to become a better parent, and why it’s so important to pay attention to the younger parts of ourselves.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and it is an honor to welcome Dr. Kurt
0:06.8	Thompson to join me today. Kurt, thanks for spending some time with us.
0:10.7	Adam, it's a pleasure. Thanks so much for having me be with you. I love this.
0:15.4	You are a psychiatrist, you're a neuroscientist, and you have a deep love for Jesus, which makes you
0:23.0	a perfect guest for this podcast because we talk about the intersection of story, trauma,
0:32.2	and healing. And so let's begin where I often begin with guests, which is can you share a little
0:38.8	bit about how is it that a medical student became interested in his story?
0:45.3	I went to medical school probably against my better judgment at the time. And then when I was a
0:55.0	resident, we were entering into my fourth year, my last year residency, and my train, one of my
1:01.3	train directors said, you know, we're pleased with your work, but there's one thing you haven't
1:04.9	done that you haven't really had much experience of being on the other side of the conversation.
1:09.2	So we think of you good idea for you to enter into therapy. Met with West Hamilton, West was a
1:18.4	psychiatrist. He's now, he's now deceased, but for every other week for a year, I met with West
1:23.5	Hamilton, and it completely upended my life, mostly because of course I was now having someone
1:32.0	ask me questions about my story and parts of my story that despite all the training, despite all
1:39.4	the immersion and even asking other patients, similar kinds of questions, it's almost as if until
1:44.8	you actually had the experience of somebody else looking in the eye and asking you these very deeply
1:49.6	personal questions about your own story, do you have any notion that the story even exists?
1:56.0	Let alone of its impact and what it's going to have, not just the answers to the questions,
2:03.6	but the telling of the story to someone who sits loving you in the process.
2:09.7	And I think that experience was, I think one that I looked back on, and I would say, oh my gosh,
2:15.5	that was probably one of the most poignant experiences that I had that began to turn my attention
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