🙋♀️ Michela is a therapist who is incorporating Neurofeedback into her counseling sessions: primarily helping women who’ve experienced trauma.
02:08🤷♀️ What does it mean to “experience trauma”? Minimizing the way that we feel leads to all sorts of diagnoses.
04:14👉 Weight loss is a byproduct of improved health: trauma might affect human behavior without us knowing it.
06:35🔁 When patterns of behavior are still recurring in the weight loss process: somewhere deep underneath, trauma might provoke this.
09:28🧐 We're not looking at external factors that probably impacted our inner dialogue: do we really hate our legs or did someone tell us to do that?
11:26🤩 The cathartic process of sitting with your emotions: the cyclical pattern of chicken and egg is a lot less negative.
14:07😤 Physical and mental health diseases are related to suppressed rage: you don't really know it's there until it bubbles over and comes out.
16:47🧠 Neurofeedback teaches the brain to re-regulate and let go of old patterns to be able actually to change the behavior.
21:47📌 QEEG Brain Map measures the activity on the surface of the skull: forty sessions are needed to track changes in the brain.
23:11🤯 Neurofeedback sessions: The brain naturally feels good and wants to stay in that mode but illnesses, events, and trauma change it.
25:09💊 The pill should not be the first solution: 80% of adults are on at least one medication.
27:07❗ Depression can’t be fixed with antidepressants: it can be genetic, but for most people, it is a reaction to their environment.
29:39🩺 All options should be laid out for the patient to choose from: when you need to find a new doctor.
32:07😇 The best predictor of you getting what you want is liking your therapist and feeling close to them.
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