Fun question: what's your sign?
Water signs--cancer, scorpio, pisces--are known for being emotional signs. I'm wondering if a pattern can be identified of which signs are invested in therapy, attachment, psychological theories, etc. either by leading the work or being curious about it. But there often isn't information about birth dates for a lot of researchers/therapists/etc. involved in this work. Fun facts: Brene Brown is a scorpio. Liz Gilbert is a cancer. Peter Levine and Glennon Doyle are pisces. Similarly I'm curious about whether there is a pattern of attachment styles for the folks interested in these fields. I lean towards red (anxious), but suspect a lot of the work is led by avoidant attachments, which is very interesting considering avoidance!
Neurodivergence and Trauma
I have been wondering if anyone has studied the impact of having either autism or ADHD and a traumatic childhood since these neurodivergences increase emotional impact. Further, my ex is an avoidant person who also has ADHD and experiences RSD but is unaware of it. How would I talk to them about RSD without upsetting them and how would we navigate healing shame together if they interpret responses as negative when they aren't?
Couples Therapy for Male BPD
Hi There, I listened to your podcast yesterday about BPD and appreciated your approach. I have someone in my life who demonstrates BPD tendencies, and is open to getting support individually and together. Thoughts on locating an appropriate clinician who shares your humanistic approach to this issue?
Connected Whole Brain Living & The 1619 Project
I am a retired LCSW, with an MSW from the UNC School of Social Work, the university where the Board of Trustees sabotaged one of the greatest feminist/antiracist journalists Nikole Hannah-Jones. My daughter Marie (21) and I have started a women's alliance for shifting society more effectively toward a multicultural, collaborative, health-centered one. We believe the Dr Jill Bolte Taylor work and your Therapist Uncensored way of persuasively teaching the public to take ownership of our mental health and relationship/community health is a phenomenal path for progress. And that the national attack on the movement for The 1619 Project, and centering Black lives and the lives of marginalized populations creates a teaching/change opportunity that could help really move the social justice world to more seriously COLLABORATE to counteract the antiscience/antivax/conspiratorial people who are buying into Trumpism. We have had great success for the last 18months bringing people together with this message: None of us are free, unless all of us are free--Fannie Lou Hamer. Can you address the necessity of intersectional, compassion/curiosity centered, women-led work such as ours: The SisterScene Creative Justice Community, that we co-lead, with a Black mother, MBA and her daughter who is a professioal women's soccer player? They are not traditionally mental-health centered (Pinto Family and they are still Christian), and yet our two families (across faith/race/personality differences) are SOLIDLY in agreement that both Dr. Jill