Dissociation Episodes

We engage in a profound conversation with Mike Cuevas, who shares his lived experience with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). We delve into the concept of coherence and its critical role in the context of DID, emphasizing that coherence is not merely a goal but an embodiment within the therapeutic process.

In this episode of The Light Inside, host Jeffrey Besecker delves into the concept of containment and its role in emotional regulation with breathwork facilitator D' Layne Benson. Together, they explore how emotional bypassing and avoidance can hinder our ability to process and integrate experiences, leading to a disconnection from vital signals.

In this enlightening episode of The Light Inside, we unravel the concept of emotional uncoupling and the importance of establishing a healthy psychological distance to better understand and process our emotions. Our guest, Veronica Rottman, founder of Waking Womb, shared her expertise on somatic-based healing and the role of the nervous system in emotional regulation. We began by discussing the challenges we face when our emotions become entangled with our experiences, leading to a web of compl...

In this episode, Clarissa, a 36 year old hairdresser from a small Midwestern town, struggles to find her place in the world amidst her family's criticism and judgements while navigating the power dynamics of experiential rationalization. Self-doubt. We often wear her blanket of insecurity like a well-worn and bloodied shield. Her insidious torment, a thunderous echoing in our ears. You have probably heard them - the millions of questions that sometimes filter through our mental framing as we co...