00:00things i can say for free your therapist can't trauma survivors often become exceptional at
00:05something that most people struggle to develop that is metacognition thinking about your own
00:12thinking in psychology metacognition is the ability to monitor assess and direct your own
00:19mental process or to notice what am i feeling why did i react like that is this an accurate belief
00:28or is this strategy working its executive function at the highest level here's what no one tells
00:34survivors a lot of you were practicing this long before you ever had a word for it if you grew
00:40up
00:41navigating unpredictable environments you learned to scan to anticipate to assess and to monitor your
00:49own reactions so that you didn't trigger other people's you learn to plan adjust regulate and
00:55analyze and that is a metacognitive skill refined under pressure now was it developed through stress
01:02yes but a skill is still a skill and when that same awareness is redirected inward in safe environments
01:11it becomes powerful instead of how do i become safe it becomes what do i actually need what do i
01:19actually
01:19believe is this thought serving me or how do i want to respond metacognition is often described as an
01:27internal feedback loop and survivors already have the wiring the work of healing is not building
01:34intelligence from scratch it's shifting from hyper vigilance to self-leadership or from survival
01:41monitoring to intentional direction you are not overthinking you are highly perceptive and when
01:49perception is no longer anchored in fear it becomes wisdom survival may have forced you to study every room
01:56but healing allows you to study yourself and that level of awareness that's not damage that is depth
