Most therapists never formally learn the Triune Brain model or basic neuroscience, even as clients arrive already reading The Body Keeps the Score and Brené Brown. Psychology programs skip this essential training, leaving practitioners behind their own patients.
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Everybody's reading, you know, the big book is The Body Keeps Score, right? This is now becoming mainstream literature, right? It was cool that people were into Brené Brown and Joe Dispenza and like all of this, you know, The Biology of Belief, um, by Bruce Lipton, right? Those were things that were kind of on the fringe but are now— they're everywhere, right? They're, they're on all the mainstream podcasts or in the mainstream media. It makes me so ridiculously happy that when I got started doing this, my professor's like, are you still a therapist? Are you still like— like, she was my clinical supervisor and now she's like, oh, okay, fine. Like, she finally caught up with it and I, you know, so happy. But I was the weird— you're not being a therapist, you're not doing therapy. But none of us have training in neurology. I don't even know if psychology departments are training in Three Brain Theory, Triune Brain Theory, and neurology. And I think this should be mandatory coursework for all of us to read. And I know our clients are reading it, so we as therapists need to really get caught up too. So