Thanks to everyone who’s taken it so far 🙏 I’m aiming for 600–800 responses to make the results strong. If you know anyone 18+ who might be interested, it would be a huge help to share the link with them!

📄 On the Origin of Human Fusion — my new paper on how childhood wounds drive politics, cults, depression & more:
doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

If you made it to the couch 🛋️, thanks for staying for the whole hour.

The satire bites — but the logic tracks.

Interpretation cuts both ways.

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This isn’t anti-therapy.
It’s a call for sequencing.
Start with the body.
The stories can come later.
If this resonates, share it.
A lot of people are blaming themselves for what their nervous system never chose.

In this piece, I unpack:
– Why talk therapy fails for early trauma
– The 3 trauma layers (evolutionary, developmental, narrative)
– A full healing framework grounded in science, not slogans
Read it here: ericlane11.substack.com/p/before-lan...

The body remembers what the mind never knew how to say.
Trying to talk your way through trauma is like reasoning with a smoke detector.
It’s not “telling a story” about fire.
It’s sounding the alarm.

Insight-based therapy doesn’t fail because clients are resistant
It fails when it targets the wrong system.
You can’t talk your way out of a flinch.
Because the wound isn’t linguistic.

True healing follows a biological sequence:

1. Physiological safety

2. Somatic awareness

3. Co-regulation

4. Cognitive integration

5. Narrative coherence
Most therapy skips to step 5.
That’s the mismatch.

That’s why trauma isn’t just what happened—
It’s what your body learned to do to survive.
Hypervigilance. Shutdown. Panic. Dissociation.
These aren’t beliefs to challenge.
They’re states to regulate.

Your amygdala, brainstem, and freeze/flight circuits evolved millions of years before storytelling.
They’re built to detect threat in milliseconds—not to interpret it.
These systems don’t use language.
They don’t speak in story.

The nervous system encodes trauma before language comes online.
You don’t feel unsafe because of a thought—
You think unsafe because you feel unsafe.
You can’t reframe a survival response.

Modern therapy is built around narrative:
“Tell your story. Reframe it. Find new meaning.”
But what if the trauma happened before you could speak?
Before memory? Before your brain could even form a story?

📖 Read the full piece here:
ericlane11.substack.com/p/sorry-i-ca...

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