11/11/2025
When we can't explore, its usually about being stuck in the left brain loop. Trauma keeps us stuck and separated from the right brain feeling (emotions) part. We stick to rigidity as a protection from uncertainty and the unknown ( exploration, reflexivity). Reflexively is an attachment foundation block, to be able to think about thinking, making interpretations and reflecting on a situation, feeling or experience. Its reflective of the inner felt world. Opposed to left brain, logical, strategic, concrete..detached from the trauma, but also self. The concept of mentalization comes from this, it's an empathic, reciprocal attunment to the infant from the caregiver that builds our capacity of self and holding unknowns, uncertainty. Defense, protection, stuckness and resistance are part of this rigid thinking. No new information can go in unless we can build a bridge for right brain connection, so we can have integration of our whole experience and then make sense or meaning from them.
