The Neuroscience Behind Our Collective Dysregulation: Navigating Today’s Social Crisis (232)

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ann and Sue delve into the pressing emotional and social challenges confronting our world today. They examine the impact of divisive political rhetoric, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, collective distrust, and widespread trauma on individuals and society as a whole. Emphasizing the necessity of self-awareness and accountability, they underscore the role each person plays in contributing to collective healing and regulation. Throughout their conversation, Ann and Sue stress the importance of vulnerability, genuine connection, and the pursuit of healing as essential components of addressing systemic issues and promoting relational solutions. They also tackle the complexities of polarization, advocating for open-mindedness, nuance, and empathy in navigating ideological differences and fostering constructive dialogue. Explore the transformative potential of emotions like anger and the power of connection and love in driving positive societal change.

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0:00.0	I think we differ sometimes less than we are being made to believe and the more that we
0:08.4	buy into hate and division and there over there are crazy and evil and if we listen to him our world's going to fall apart if we keep buying into that what's being sold to us
0:19.7	Then they really are going to be running our insides. They're going to be running our insides,
0:23.0	they're going to be running our nervous system
0:25.0	both individually and collectively.
0:27.0	And what we want right now is to be able to go wait,
0:30.0	let's hold our own individually and collectively as a group, learn to securely
0:35.8	relate and listen as we start to think of solutions. Instead of focusing on the solutions
0:41.6	first, your answer is wrong, mind's right.
0:44.0	It's like how do we relate first, just like in a relationship?
0:47.5	How do we get to secure relating place and then be able to listen more?
0:51.5	And one of the things we have to do is recognize how much we're being
0:55.4	manipulated and incited to not be in our higher wiser self and that we really can then own our own
1:02.4	tolerate that discomfort and not so easily be
1:05.9	manipulated into that kind of thinking that is going to lead us nowhere. I mean we
1:12.4	can see it's not getting better and the one way we can get
1:15.2	better I think is that that's our message right? She is securely relating, learn how to do that so that
1:22.1	we quit being so divided and we quit being so polarized.
1:27.0	Welcome to Therapist Uncensored.
1:31.0	Building on decades of professional experience this podcast tackles
1:34.1	neurobiology, modern attachment, and more in an honest way that's helpful in healing
1:38.8	humans. Your session begins now with Dr. Ann Kelly and Sue Marriott.
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