A Season in the Making: Religious Trauma, Neurodiversity, and Curiosity The Evidence Based Therapist · Episode

I’ve officially joined the Evidence Based Therapist podcast as a co-host! Check out our latest episode where we dive into my research into the intersection of religious trauma and neurodivergence

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Oooooooo!

some “bottom up” change is effective for a system or person that orients too strongly to “top-down” implementation

some “top down” change is effective for a system or person that orients too strongly to “bottom-up” immersion

#health means “do both”
#growth expands capacity

Currently working on a psychoanalytic/somatic conceptualization of religious trauma and my brain keeps going off into a million different branches of thought. This is gonna be tough to whittle down 😅

Lmao amazing! 😂🙌🏼

Project Hail Mairy

The Expanse (full series and novellas)

The Captive’s War (first book and novella)

I agree with that 100%. “Too much too soon” is apropos here. That period is unique to our developmental understanding of self and other. We need an updated lexicon for talking about trauma presentations that allows for these nuanced differences

…developmental period out a bit further as well as highlight that repeated traumas, whether of the same kind or varied, does create a unique presentation of its own.

This reminds of the introjective/anaclitic split of “I’m bad” vs “I’m alone” except in this case it would be “I’m bad” vs “You’re bad”.

I do agree though that Herman is speaking to developmental trauma when she speaks on complex trauma though I, personally, would conceptually extend that…

LMAO perfect reaction

I had the same thoughts. The entire framing of the questionnaire and the wording of the questions themselves opposes the entire concept of personality organization

Fantastic critique, Alejandra! Question #14 made me audibly LOL. How’d I know Ruffalo would somehow have a question worded this way? 😅😑

It’s because the DSM is a highly objectified, categorical diagnostic system wherein autism best fits the Developmental Disorders category because the DSM completely fails in capturing the complexity of the subjective experience of being human whether that’s autism, anxiety, depression, etc

I don’t know what that means but I’m intrigued! 😅

How do you like the Remarkable? A few clinicians at my office use them and I’m realllllly considering one

Finally cracking into this. I’m only 30 pages in and I can already tell this is going to radically shift my conceptualizations and relationships with my clients. It’s been on my list for 2 years and at the behest of my supervisor I finally pulled the trigger.

A month into my private practice journey and my caseload is half full. Fingers crossed I can fill the rest in the next few months and finally be able to quit my serving job and be able to leave the soul-sucking food industry for good 😅

Anything I’ve read of Klein always reeks of projection. Not my cup of tea at all 😅

Playing a game of Telestrations: After Dark with some friends last night:

*drawing handed to me is a picture of a rising sun and a tree*

My autism: Sun Tree

The secret word was “morning wood”

😂😂😂

I’m usually really good at most games but my literalism got me this time 😅

The 4chan-coded ideology behind Elon Musk's war on normies Musk thinks autism makes him superhuman. Just don't call it that.

For the July/August issue of @motherjones.com, I dived into Elon Musk's relationship with Aspie supremacy and how it's promoted online. This ideology, coined by the late autistic blogger Mel Baggs, also dehumanizes autistic people with high support needs. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Going to church for the first time in 16 years. (Networking with some local progressive pastors for referral sources for clients with religious trauma)

Quite the stir in my body this morning, though!

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

They think we’re stupid

@jonathanstea.bsky.social

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Any therapist worth their salt will know this and wouldn’t espouse such concrete statements.

As a therapist who loves somatics this kind of stuff makes my blood boil 😑

The body is just a data point. An important data point but that’s simply all it is. It tells us something is happening but doesn’t define what that “it” is.

It tells us the subjective experience but it doesn’t tell us the objective meaning of that experience.

Scotland is a beautiful country with incredibly kind humans. This has been a fantastic trip so far

Thank you!! So relieved to be done 😅

I did the damn thing! 🙌🏼

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Graduation Day! 🙌🏼