Do you have a critical inner voice? I write about this topic (neuroscientists call this a critical Default Mode Network) and it’s a hot topic, because so many of us struggle with self-criticism, meanness and a tyrant in our heads that tells us we are terrible, worthless, unlovable.
The resources below will help you learn how to be kinder to yourself, and how to permanently shift your DMN into a warm and kind loving friend.
In our culture, rage is considered mostly unacceptable, especially by women. But rage is one of our eight circuits of emotion and motivation. In this podcast interview, we discuss how rage helps us understand when our boundaries have been violated. Why is rage so...
Once we understand how trauma impacts our mammalian circuitry (Jaak Panksepp's 8 circuits of emotion and motivation), we begin to see that so many things we've given ourselves a hard time for, are not static truths about us, but instead are simply the result of...
Learn Sarah's 10 Key Concepts of Resonant Healing to support healing movement and transformation of anxiety, depression, disorganized attachment, PTSD and more. What are the 10 Key Concepts of Resonant Healing?There is plenty of advice out in the world about how to...
This interview is the first of a three-part series with Guy MacPherson of the Trauma Therapist Podcast. (Listen to part 2 here, part 3 here). The body is such a crucial point to use as a focal point when we're healing from trauma. Our bodies tell us what memory is a...
Bringing resonance and accompaniment back to our wounded selves is the key to healing brains that have been fragmented by traumatic experience. This is called many names, for example: CRM Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM)® I call it the Time Traveling with Resonance...
Healing our inner voice begins with understanding what it wants. I recently appeared on Dr. Trevor Blattner's podcast, The Top 1%, where we spoke about how to use mindfulness, meditation, and resonant language to heal and reclaim access to our brains for purpose and...
What can neuroscience bring us about how to heal guilt and shame, and practice radical self-acceptance, in the context of the world we live in where to be alive is inherently compromising the lives of others?
My mission is to support self-warmth, joy and compassion by sharing the science of how our brains can change, I want to share a practice with you. Have you got 6 minutes? Find a spot to sit or lay down, and give yourself the gift of warm breath and sweet,...
https://empathybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/TherapyChat_EP116_v2.mp3 In this episode from the Therapy Chat podcast, Sarah talks with Laura Reagan, LCSW-C about the neuroscience of language, and why it's important to talk kindly to ourselves.
Resonant attention and language changes the way we see ourselves. With our new eyes, we start to transform our experiences of shame, rage, terror and self-doubt into the sense that we are enough, just as we are. This interview breaks down the neuroscience of language in layperson’s terms and explains how the way we talk to ourselves can change and heal over time, quieting the lacerating judgments of the default mode network (aka – the critical inner voice).