The Place We Find Ourselves #150: Healing Happens Through Connection

Adam Young
Podcast
Connection With
Yourself

In this podcast, Adam Young unpacks what is happening when a wise courageous person attunes to the trauma story of another. When a person attunes to another, they are aware of and responsive to that person’s emotions, needs and subtle cues. It is then possible for the two people, together, to truthfully name what happened and arrive at a more accurate narrative of the trauma. When a person “feels felt” in this way, the neural networks in their brain literally integrate top to bottom and left to right. In other words, what trauma fragments, the right environment of connection heals.

I (James) was struck by how simple yet foreign this message is in our highly competitive, capitalist and disembodied digital culture. Yet, as I review my own story, it has certainly been the presence of the wise, compassionate guides and steady friends that Young describes that were necessary in my own healing.

Young makes a compelling case for connection and explains it masterfully.

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