I'm developing a new general integration pathway, based on this insight "unlearning trauma responses is allowed to be fun", and further implications. Curious to hear thoughts from @xuenay, @mattgoldenberg, @nosilverv, @pjeby, etc Short thread 🧵 1/5
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I'm developing a new general integration pathway, based on this insight "unlearning trauma responses is allowed to be fun", and further implications. Curious to hear thoughts from @xuenay, @mattgoldenberg, @nosilverv, @pjeby, etc Short thread 🧵 1/5
What I'm about to say will make a lot more sense if you've read this summary of Unlocking the Emotional Brain, or something equivalent. lesswrong.com/posts/i9xyZBS3…
Phase 1: Get a taste of therapeutic reconsolidation: • start with something you feel motivated to change • use a technique you feel safe with / attracted to Outcome: feel a sense of the reality of emotional reconsolidation and of the limbic brain.
Phase 2: Cultivate & integrate active appetite to do more, both by finding other things that already feel juicy, and by prioritizing therapeutic reconsolidation on any resistance that comes up. Outcome: get buy-in from all of your parts to resolving differences via ~dialogue
Phase 3: Then with full-buy-in stance, go wild! Let yourself work on everything else as it arises. Give in to the urge to integrate. And maybe like me this prompts you to reach out to a therapist in a modality you feel excited about, or you get training in a technique. Whatever!
The really important thing here is to not get attached to any concept of *how* the integration process will work. Whatever each part is needing in order to feel welcomed will transform your sense of what welcoming *is*.