Welcome to the Being Known Podcast with my friend Dr Kurt Thompson.

My friend Pepper Sweeney.

We are here to explore and discover what it means to be truly known.

On today's podcast, we are going to be talking about the mind.

Kurt, do you mind?

No, I don't.

Well, Pepper, in some respects, yeah, yeah, go ahead. No, go ahead. No, you go ahead. Do you mind if I do? We're off to a great start. You know in some respects this episode is pretty

foundational because we're talking about that part of the human experience that people come

into my office to ask questions about like because they're symptomatic in some way shape or form you come to see a

psychiatrist when you are having problems with your mind so to speak I mean that's

what people are thinking because we are depressed,

we're anxious, we have manic-depressive illness,

we have all kinds of, we have challenges in our marriage

and in many respects.

We're really talking about the part of our experience where we experience our deepest pain and we experience our deepest joys and our deepest

longings our deepest joys and our deepest longings, our deepest griefs.

All that takes place in the context of the mind.

And so this morning we'd like to talk about the importance of it and get some sense of what we really mean by

that so that we can be clear as we as we talk about a number of different things over the course of our podcast time

Whether it's interpersonal neurobiology or spiritual formation or whatever we're we're really wanting to know what is the mind and how does that have anything to do with the but the reason that we're really wanting to know what is the mind and how does that have anything to do with the

reason that we're meeting together.

Right, so you know obviously you've got the brain which is an organ, the mind is something sort of altogether different.

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