Because of the pain and suffering which comes with being human, few of us will get through life without having unexpected loss, relationship problems, trauma or other difficult experiences that challenge our resilience. Experiencing overwhelmingly painful feelings of fear, grief, despair, or shame is not easy, especially when you feel alone with them. Some of us can experience the pain to the depths of our very core.
"Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul."
— Carl Jung
Neuroscience has proven that humans are hardwired to heal, change, and manage emotions in safe relationship.
Therapy can provide that relationship.
Resiliency is hard-wired at birth.Our capacities to respond to life's challenges adaptively are hard-wired in our brains at birth, but how they develop as we mature depends upon our responses to our early life experiences and how those experiences get wired into our neural circuitry. These wired-in patterns of coping affect the way we respond to things that threaten our sense of security, safety, and well-being. To learn how neuroscience and attachment theory explains this, click on this neuroscience explanation.
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We can rewire our brains.The good new is that the latest neuroscience research proves that it is absolutely possible to rewire our neural connections to change coping patterns that may no longer serve us. We can connect to our true selves by consciously rewiring our brain through new positive experiences and new learning that challenge the habitual body responses. Old behaviors and thinking can be changed in a way that creates more flexibility of choice in responding to the struggles of life.
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Move from surviving to thriving.When we learn how to actually experience and regulate our intense emotions in our bodies and tend to the parts of ourselves that are crying out, we can transform anger into assertiveness, fear into self-protection, grief into acceptance, self-hatred into self-compassion, and apathy into passion. In doing so, you can move from surviving to thriving.
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"The soul presents itself in a variety of colors, including all the shades of gray, blue, and black. To care for the soul, we must observe the full range of all its colorings, and resist the temptation to approve only of red, white, and orange—the brilliant colors."
— Thomas Moore
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"Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people."
— Spencer Johnson
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