Hello everyone, it's Adam. Before launching into this episode, I want to invite you to two upcoming conferences.

The first is the Sexual Attachment Conference, which will be held via Zoom on May 5th to 6th, 2023.

The purpose of this conference is to help you understand how your present sexual struggles

are directly related to your past family of origin story.

And the second conference will be held a week later on Saturday, May 13th,

and it is designed to teach you the art and science of engaging another person's story.

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Thank you and now let's dive into today's podcast episode.

Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and today I'm going to talk

about what is actually happening when two people interact. Whether that's two spouses,

a therapist and a client, two friends. What is actually happening in the brains of the two people

who are interacting? That's what we're going to explore today. Thank you so much for listening.

Let's dive in. To begin to understand what is happening when two people interact,

you have to understand that you have two brains, not one. You have a right brain and a left brain.

They do very different things. Ian McGill-Christ wrote a seminal work some years ago called the Master

and the Emissary. The Master and the Emissary and his point is that your right brain is the master

and your left brain is the Emissary. In other words, your right brain runs your life.

And when I say your right brain runs your life, I mean that your right brain and not your left

determines what kind of car you buy. Your right brain and not your left determines who you marry.

Some of you consider yourselves left brain dominant, rational, cerebral people.

You think you bought your last car based on a consumer report's inspired procon list.

You didn't. You bought your last car because your right brain chose it.

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