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Somatic Psychology: Using the Body to Heal the Mind with Elizabeth Ferreira

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

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Cognitive Bypassing

Cognitive bypassing is a survival strategy that someone has learned to avoid their feelings. So instead of actually somatically feeling their feelings in their body, they think about the feeling. There's immense distance between what the body can feel and how they're talking about it. And so often when people cognitively bypass, they're like, look, I understand why I'm sad and that I'm sadness and what do we do about it?

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