127 Trauma, Fragmentation, and the Soothing Certainty of Dogmatism

The Place We Find Ourselves

Adam Young

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🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Connections between brain regions lead to a healthy and stable brain (and a healthy and stable life). Trauma prevents these brain connections. This is known as fragmentation. In today’s episode, I explain how trauma leads to fragmentation in the brain and why fragmentation makes you feel unstable in your day to day life. I then suggest that when we feel unstable, we are drawn toward theologies and worldviews that offer certainty. The fragmentation in your brain resulting from trauma can make you a very dogmatic person. Why? Because, as Dan Allender says, “The more certain you become, the less fragmented you feel.”

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and today boy
0:07.3	Goodness today. I want to talk about
0:11.0	drama
0:13.0	fragmentation
0:14.5	and the need for certainty
0:17.7	In other words, I'm gonna explore how trauma
0:21.5	leads to fragmentation in the brain and
0:24.5	Then I'll explain what our brain does in response
0:30.4	to the terror of fragmentation
0:33.4	So first what is fragmentation and how does trauma cause fragmentation in the brain?
0:40.4	Okay, when you experience something
0:44.2	your brain records memory in many areas, but five that I want to focus on highlight five key areas
0:51.6	Your brain records your thoughts about the experience
0:57.4	your feelings
0:59.7	About the experience the physical sensations you had during the experience at summer three
1:08.6	The bodily inclinations you felt in the midst of the experience and
1:14.9	number five
1:16.4	the visual images of what you saw
1:19.3	during the experience with your eyes
1:22.9	So there are more areas of memory smell for example, but but these five will suffice
1:29.6	to illustrate my point for today
1:32.5	thoughts
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