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The House
Naming the pattern was the easy part.
Then the phenomenology, because the pattern is far easier to recognise once it has been seen a few times in video, in case material, or in live sessions with consent.
The House
Something shifts in the room, and the reaction is far bigger than anything that happened
Read it free What is in it Chapter 1 · Why RSD Needs a Clinician's Guide open this in the house search The Reaction That Doesn't Match the Event open this in the house search What RSD Is and Is Not open this in the house search Why Generic Advice Fails open this in the house search The Shame Engine open this in the house search Why Timing Matters More Than Content open this in the house search What the Client Can
Therapist's Guide to RSD · Volume I — Foundations and Assessment
Chapter 12: Repairing Rupture in Session
How does your own practice with repair — or the lack of it — shape what you model for your clients?
Therapist's Guide to RSD · Volume I — Foundations and Assessment
Chapter 3: Shame, Threat, and the Nervous System
When the client has returned to a workable state — you will see it in their face, their breath, their spontaneous speech — then and only then begin the reflective work.
Therapist's Guide to RSD · Volume I — Foundations and Assessment
Chapter 1: Why RSD Needs a Clinician's Guide
The client is not in the conversation you think they're in. The client is in a conversation with their own nervous system, and that conversation has gotten loud enough to drown out anything you offer from the outside.
The House
Naming the pattern was the easy part.
The sensitivity is not the problem; the suffering, the isolation and the loss of choice are.
The House
Regulation has to happen before the insight will land
A client socialised as a man has often been taught that expression is weakness, and the same pattern presents as anger or withdrawal rather than visible shame.