Interoception: Our Real-Life Superpower | Carrie DeJong | TEDxChilliwack

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Interoception is one of our least-known senses. It provides our brain with important information from our body. This information is necessary for managing our bodily needs, but it is also vital to emotional processing, decision-making, rational thought, and good mental health. TEDxChilliwack 2022 was live streamed on April 9, 2022 from Cowork Chilliwack in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. The theme of the event was “Clarity". Learn more at tedxchilliwack.com. Carrie DeJong has over 20 years of clinical experience working in trauma treatment programs, residential addiction treatment and private practice. She focuses on bringing greater awareness of the impacts that trauma, stress and mental health challenges have on the use of mood-altering substances and behaviours as a way of coping. Her mission: to bring more science and more compassion to the field of addiction recovery. Her therapeutic approach is rooted in an understanding of how the human nervous system is wired. She is an avid learner of neurobiology and body-centred approaches to therapy. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@tiffanybolton1832]

This is such a helpful presentation! I have ADHD and PTSD, and as a result I have dissociated from my body since I was a child. I’ve always said I didn’t “feel” like I had a body, until it was screaming at me. I’ve lived in my head most of my life, which is a recipe for disaster. I love how she mentioned that it relates to our “sense of self” because I have also felt like I did not fully form a “sense of self”. I’ve been stuck in this weird stage not understanding how to progress. This is life changing information. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

[@recoveryhappens7124]

Thank you for such an encouraging comment! I am grateful to know it has given you another way to understand yourself and your journey of healing better! Carrie D.

[@carolina6683]

Fantastic talk, well done. Everybody should know this. It should be taught in schools, so we can all self regulate and become healthy adults.

[@fatherburning358]

To achieve full connection with my body. Become my singular mind-body self. This is where my cptsd healing has led me. Great talk. A superpower indeed. 😂

[@sissisfussful]

thank you, Carrie DeJong :)

[@user-zi3tq1ly1g]

I had no idea people could feel their own heartbeat unless it was going really crazy.

[@psychology-professionallys3315]

I love this topic - EPIC model is Cool model releted to INTEROCEPTION but i Like MAIA - noticing without trusting = ANXIETY, noticing and being color blind for emotions and sensations is somatoform disorder, and I Like EDER model for explaining how you can help yourself if you Are misinterpreting cues by actually not doing anything and Just let your Brain that can do 100 billion calculation per sec. do his thing - Just step aside and let natural processing of emotions happen with a smile on your face! And there is S-REF that also can add metacognitive belifes that Are cousing us pain to be revieled :)