The Place We Find Ourselves

113 Making Sense of Your Story: Why It’s Necessary to Name Intentionality Part 1

Apr 25, 2022

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The Mind Mapping Part of Your Brain Will Collapse

01:32

How Does Your Father Know All This?

04:13

The Importance of Being Clear About the Intention of Those Who Harmed You

03:03

Introduction

3min

The Importance of Being Clear About the Intention of Those Who Harmed You

3min

Therapus D Schnarsh's Two Thousand 18 Book Entitled Brain Talk

4min

What Is Your Father Thinking and Feeling?

2min

What's Dramatic Mind Mapping?

3min

The Mind Mapping Part of Your Brain Will Collapse

2min

How Does Your Father Know All This?

4min

What Is Unintentional Harm?

3min

Naming intentionality matters because if you are unsure about whether or not the other person meant to hurt you, it will be very difficult for you to heal from your wounds. This is because you can’t heal until your brain has constructed an accurate and coherent autobiographical narrative of your life: the narrative has to be true and it has to make sense. Drawing from David Schnarch’s book Brain Talk, I explain two important concepts: mind-mapping and traumatic mind-mapping. Mind-mapping refers to your ability to map out the thoughts and feelings of another person. Traumatic mind-mapping is a collapse of your brain’s normal mind mapping abilities that occurs when you are mind-mapping someone and what you see is terrible.

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