The Inner Workings of Healing Story and Photos by Sarah Correa-Dibar
You exploded on your mom for picking you up five minutes later than she promised. You create false narratives that your best friends hate you. You cry yourself to sleep because you turned in an assignment a minute past the deadline. Stress is negatively impacting your mind and your body. You’ve heard the phrase “looking back through rose-tinted glasses,” right? Chances are, your brain probably blocked out the temper tantrum you had at your sixth birthday party when your dad promised you a pony, and he failed to deliver. Instead, you remember the taste of the delicious chocolate cake and the smell of the freshly cut grass in your backyard when you went outside to play with your friends. “We all make the same mistakes because we all have very similar brains,” said Shepperd. “Therefore, we all have retroactive and proactive interference … we’re all engaged in the confirmation bias … we all do these things because that’s the way the brain takes shortcuts and makes judgments in the face of uncertainty and incomplete information. Or not paying attention enough.” 66 The Origins Is sue
The Mandela Effect, while evidently not real, at least not in the way you’d think, offers some comfort in that people as a collective seem to interpret things in the same way. An individual experience of processing information and forming a memory is made into a completely united and different one that can be discussed with others. According to Shepperd, the fact that many people have shared false memories simply means that a lot of people’s minds work in the same way. Who knew solace could be found in a glitch of the human consciousness?
Just as stress eats at you from your core, you heal from your core. “Diving into your past and healing your wounds will help your future,” said Lorilee Binstock, a trauma survivor and founder of "A Trauma Survivor Thriver’s Podcast." “When I did MDMA therapy, it helped me go back to not only my own childhood but to my dad’s childhood as well.” Binstock concluded that by figuring out the origins of your own feelings, you can go back generations and find out why they had the negative thoughts and inner demons they did. The only way to reach the center of your soul is by digging with professional help. With therapy, also referred to as psychotherapy, you sit with a certified
counselor to talk about new behaviors you have discovered about yourself, relationships you don’t feel comfortable with, traumatic experiences, fears, realizations and everything in between. Including methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) psychotherapy, a drug-assisted psychotherapy that aids post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Binstock has experienced many forms of therapy and now interviews different kinds of therapists and trauma survivors on her podcast. She referenced the 2015 Pixar film “Inside Out” to explain any general therapeutic process and how it’s like healing your inner child. “We usually talk to ourselves pretty negatively, but you would never say those bad things to a child,” said Binstock. You sit down on a chair or a couch in front of your therapist. They ask you to introduce yourself and to tell them why you decided to come in. But there are different levels of therapy. It works like this: You go to therapy, and you talk about any The Origins Is sue 67
