I'm 63.
I've spent over 20 years as a Harvard-trained psychologist helping high performers inlcuding CEOs & founders worth $100M+.
They all face one similar issue.
If you're burnt out, stressed, and your immune system is always in chaos, read this: 🧵
I've spent over 20 years as a Harvard-trained psychologist helping high performers inlcuding CEOs & founders worth $100M+.
They all face one similar issue.
If you're burnt out, stressed, and your immune system is always in chaos, read this: 🧵
In my PhD program at University of Texas Austin, I discovered the mind isn't just thoughts...
It's a whole system that includes your body, emotions, and nervous system...
This insight has helped my highest-performing clients recover from burnout when nothing else worked.
It's a whole system that includes your body, emotions, and nervous system...
This insight has helped my highest-performing clients recover from burnout when nothing else worked.
The first psychology lab opened in Berlin in the 1870s, what I call "the beginning stages of psychology."
While Americans know Freud and Jung, most don't know this German beginning.
Psychology was born measuring the mind, not healing it.
While Americans know Freud and Jung, most don't know this German beginning.
Psychology was born measuring the mind, not healing it.
Carl Jung expanded Freud's ideas with something deeper.
He focused on the "collective unconscious" - a shared pool of human experiences.
I love Jung for his deeper understanding of human experience - something I told Cudworth in our recent interview.
He focused on the "collective unconscious" - a shared pool of human experiences.
I love Jung for his deeper understanding of human experience - something I told Cudworth in our recent interview.
Jung believed we each have a "Self" (capital S) vs. the "ego self."
The Self connects us to something bigger.
The ego splits us from it.
This explains why people search for UFOs - they need connection to something beyond themselves.
The Self connects us to something bigger.
The ego splits us from it.
This explains why people search for UFOs - they need connection to something beyond themselves.
After Jung, American psychology took a sharp turn toward behaviorism.
"In America especially, behaviorism became the sine qua non, the ultimate," as I explained to Cudworth.
They only cared about what they could measure, not what people felt inside.
"In America especially, behaviorism became the sine qua non, the ultimate," as I explained to Cudworth.
They only cared about what they could measure, not what people felt inside.
Behaviorism won because it's "just focused on measurement."
It gave psychology scientific credibility.
But it stripped away the soul aspects that Jung and Freud were exploring.
It gave psychology scientific credibility.
But it stripped away the soul aspects that Jung and Freud were exploring.
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) emerged as "a first cousin of behaviorism," as I describe it.
While acknowledging thoughts, it kept the focus on measurable outcomes.
This is why it took "so long to get recognized as an approved way of helping people."
While acknowledging thoughts, it kept the focus on measurable outcomes.
This is why it took "so long to get recognized as an approved way of helping people."
CBT has limits with trauma because it's "focused on thought distortions."
For trauma victims, logical reframing doesn't work because trauma lives in the limbic system - our "reptilian brain," the oldest part of the brain.
Logic can't touch these wounds.
For trauma victims, logical reframing doesn't work because trauma lives in the limbic system - our "reptilian brain," the oldest part of the brain.
Logic can't touch these wounds.
When a trauma survivor gets triggered, they repeat thoughts like "I'm no good."
CBT says "recognize this as a labeling distortion."
But it "doesn't do them any good to think it through logically" - the emotional brain is already fired up and reactive.
CBT says "recognize this as a labeling distortion."
But it "doesn't do them any good to think it through logically" - the emotional brain is already fired up and reactive.
The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) has gone overboard.
It has "mutated into all sorts of things" including diagnosing "picking up your pen too much" as a disorder.
Normal behaviors became pathologies.
It has "mutated into all sorts of things" including diagnosing "picking up your pen too much" as a disorder.
Normal behaviors became pathologies.
Diagnoses become identities.
Saying "I'm bipolar" or "I have social anxiety" turns a condition into who you are.
There's no stronger force in the world than identity.
This is why I don't focus on diagnosing my clients.
Saying "I'm bipolar" or "I have social anxiety" turns a condition into who you are.
There's no stronger force in the world than identity.
This is why I don't focus on diagnosing my clients.
I worked with a neuroscientist who wanted to take her lab to the next level.
Her problem wasn't knowledge but childhood patterns showing up as not setting clear boundaries and self-sabotage.
No diagnosis could capture this complexity.
Her problem wasn't knowledge but childhood patterns showing up as not setting clear boundaries and self-sabotage.
No diagnosis could capture this complexity.
Art therapy accesses healing in ways that talking can't.
When my clients draw, "they're engaged in different neural systems."
"The tactile is important... kinesthetically when people draw, they're engaged in different neural systems."
When my clients draw, "they're engaged in different neural systems."
"The tactile is important... kinesthetically when people draw, they're engaged in different neural systems."
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Art teaches perfectionists a powerful lesson.
"Nobody—not even Michelangelo--can draw exactly what they intend."
This shows high achievers that "good enough" is actually enough.
It's "an important lesson for emotional regulation."
"Nobody—not even Michelangelo--can draw exactly what they intend."
This shows high achievers that "good enough" is actually enough.
It's "an important lesson for emotional regulation."
https://x.com/LORWEN108/status/1938318309084303705
I focus on changing the "default mode network (DMN)" - our brain's tendency to ruminate and get stuck in destructive mind wandering.
My aim is to push mind wandering into the fresh air by having my clients walk outdoors without devices.
My aim is to push mind wandering into the fresh air by having my clients walk outdoors without devices.
This allows the DMN to move to constructive mind wandering not destructive mind wandering.
The more my client's interrupt ruminating patterns the happier they feel.
I tell my clients, "Go for 10 minutes outside when you notice you've fallen into old worry patterns."
The more my client's interrupt ruminating patterns the happier they feel.
I tell my clients, "Go for 10 minutes outside when you notice you've fallen into old worry patterns."
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Anxiety Relief Transformation™ opens August 4th.
12 modules combining art therapy, somatic practices & neuroscience—the same approach that's helped my $100M+ clients heal.
Waitlist gets 25% off:
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Hi, I'm Lorwen Nagle.
I've spent 40 years as a Harvard-trained psychologist, studying consciousness with the Dalai Lama, and helping thousands untangle their minds.
Follow @Lorwen108 for threads on anxiety, mindfulness, and the science of inner peace.
I've spent 40 years as a Harvard-trained psychologist, studying consciousness with the Dalai Lama, and helping thousands untangle their minds.
Follow @Lorwen108 for threads on anxiety, mindfulness, and the science of inner peace.
Follow me @lorwen108 for more insights on psychology, emotional intelligence, and the healing power of imagination.
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