The Long Reach of a Boy's Meaning-Making
A man describes the annual depression that has mystified him for decades, the feeling of being an imposter, and his impatient, angry tone with coworkers. Then the discovery phase of Coherence Therapy begins, a movement from the symptom down along linkages into the underlying emotional learnings driving it. The process of discovering this man's unconscious emotional truths demonstrates a variety of simple but highly effective techniques.
The mystery lifts as pivotal childhood events thirty years prior come to the fore and are deeply revisited. What's revealed are the dire meanings he made of those experiences and has carried ever since, outside of awareness—meanings that mire him in hopeless despair, especially at a particular time of year, and keep him lodged in feeling himself fundamentally inadequate.
Guided into recognizing, naming and feeling his dire core beliefs for the first time in his life, spontaneously a contrary knowing emerges, creating a juxtaposition experience that unlocks the grip that his ten-year-old meaning-making has had on his life ever since. Five months after the session, he reports the falling away of his symptoms and a transformed relationship with his parents.
Down Every Year
The Long Reach of a Boy's Meaning-Making
One session, 45 minutes (1 hour 8 minutes with voiceover commentaries)
Therapist: Bruce Ecker, LMFTA man describes the annual depression that has mystified him for decades, the feeling of being an imposter, and his impatient, angry tone with coworkers. Then the discovery phase of Coherence Therapy begins, a movement from the symptom down along linkages into the underlying emotional learnings driving it. The process of discovering this man's unconscious emotional truths demonstrates a variety of simple but highly effective techniques.
The mystery lifts as pivotal childhood events thirty years prior come to the fore and are deeply revisited. What's revealed are the dire meanings he made of those experiences and has carried ever since, outside of awareness—meanings that mire him in hopeless despair, especially at a particular time of year, and keep him lodged in feeling himself fundamentally inadequate.
Guided into recognizing, naming and feeling his dire core beliefs for the first time in his life, spontaneously a contrary knowing emerges, creating a juxtaposition experience that unlocks the grip that his ten-year-old meaning-making has had on his life ever since. Five months after the session, he reports the falling away of his symptoms and a transformed relationship with his parents.