Talk Therapy vs. Mind & Body Therapies
There are three major parts to the human brain. The most sophisticated is the neocortex, which controls language, logic and reason. The mid-brain is called the limbic system; this is what controls feelings.
It is these two parts of the brain that are accessed in talk therapy.
The most primitive part of the brain is what we call the "reptilian brain". It is this part of the brain that controls our instinctual responses to danger: fight, flight and freeze.
The reptilian brain doesn't know the difference between what is real and what is perceived. We need to help it renegotiate past events in ways that are not logical or linear.
Mind & body therapies reach all three parts of the brain, enabling us to fully integrate upsetting events and move beyond them to an embodied sense of safety and freedom.