That's the mediator that can then get our sense of ourselves and our narrative.

You hear about coherent narrative. This is all about coherent narrative where we make sense of our

life story and then it can store in this higher part of our brain where that we can reflect on

ourselves and all the good stuff about that. So that's the gist of that and why this is important

is that when we are just in our unconscious selves and we're just doing the defense and we're not

that interested or we just haven't yet been able to admit it to ourselves that we do these

things. We're wanting to move it up the brain stem into this middle section where that we can

work on it, reflect on it, make sense of it and now we have consciousness, right? With consciousness

then we can sort out what do we want to keep, what do we not want to keep? That goes back to that

three hours and then recognize and then reflect and then then we wire. Welcome to Therapist Uncensored,

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we bring you a podcast that brings the latest and the relational sciences to everyone make it

accessible to everybody. So it's a great privilege to do that. We've just launched a series called

Disarming Human Defensiveness. That is what we decided to call it. But it's about like yeah,

how do you know that you're you're in your own defense and how do you get out of your own way?

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