S5E4: Joy, Shame and the Brain

Being Known Podcast

Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We were made for joy. The bible and our greatest literature attest to this. But not only this: research in attachment reflects that joyful human relationships are the key to our well-being. No wonder, then, that shame targets our experience of joy as its first priority in disintegrating us, disconnecting us from ourselves and each other. In this episode, we examine why joy is so important to practice—yep, you read that right: practice—and how shame will do anything it can to rob us of as much of it as it can.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Being Known Podcast with my friend Dr. Kurt Thompson and my friend Pepper
0:18.4	Sweeney. We are here to discover and explore what it means to be truly known.
0:24.6	Hey Kurt, hey Pep.
0:26.3	I am so excited to be here today
0:28.3	because all last season we talked about trauma,
0:32.1	all this season we're talking about shame but today we get to talk about
0:36.3	joy a little bit yeah you know that's with the emphasis on a little bit a little bit
0:40.9	and how shame ruins it.
0:43.0	So we get to give hope and whack it with a hammer.
0:48.0	Folks, if you're just joining us this season we are going through Kurt's what was his
0:57.3	second book the soul of shame and I implore you to go pick it up if you don't already have it because it will be a great companion or actually the podcast is a great companion to the book.
1:09.0	They work really well together just like we did last season with the soul of desire. We are excited to be going
1:16.6	through this book and today's chapter is chapter 3 in the book and it is entitled Joy Shame and the brain. Yeah you know
1:27.1	Pepe it's it is a it is a testimony to how powerful shame can be in our life in that when we just just
1:37.6	starting with a little brain science this notion that it takes about three
1:41.8	seconds for us to have an encounter with and
1:45.4	have shame become embedded and for us to encode it in our memory.
1:49.5	Less than three seconds for that to happen.
1:52.6	For us to have an encounter with joy,
1:54.6	which we'll get to in terms of what it is
1:56.2	and why it's important, for us to encode it and remember it,
2:01.4	not just to have these three, but to remember it can take upwards from 60 to 90 seconds for
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