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I'm your host, Steve Biesel.

The goal of this podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy, and the

wide array of conversations you can have in therapy.

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Hi, and welcome to episode 73 of finding your way through therapy. I am Steve Biesel.

If you haven't listened to episode 72 yet, please go back. I had such a great time with Kara,

Bill, and Susan. Just a great conversation about emergency work, what it can bring you as well as

kind of like developing. If you're a therapist, finding the things you like and

dislike as well as just meeting a lot of challenges in order to manage it better. And ultimately,

I think that part of the stuff that we didn't talk about, but I'm going to say here,

I really feel like I'm more able to deal with things that happen in outpatient therapy because of it. But it was a great conversation. So go back. There's a lot of stuff we talked about. But episode 73 will be again a chapter in my book. And the chapter in the book is, A Beautiful Mind needs to be nurtured. Again, what I've done as an exercise for myself, as well as for you, my audience, really, is that I reread

the chapters that I wrote about two years ago. And in this chapter, I talk a lot about

neurology and how the brain works and all that stuff. And I just realized that, you know,

that's much more than a beautiful mind. I think that I should have worked

on the thought processes a little more, how to process emotions on a cognitive level and talk

more about cognitive distortions. I think that I barely talked about the conditional words too. But let me

just give you a little bit of an idea of what I talked about. Some of the key words are brain anatomy.

And what I talk about is, you know, the cerebral cortex to the hindbrain with the midbrain and how that works. And I

particularly take time to talk about how trauma works. And I think that that's something I even

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