This episode is to help you to understand the Neuroscience of Identifying and Healing Ego and Shadow Wounds.

It includes:

• ​The Core Concepts
• ​The Neurobiology of the Ego Wound: Cortical Adaptation
• ​The Neurobiology of the Shadow Wound: Subcortical Storage
• ​Comparing the Ego and Shadow Networks
• ​How to Identify Your Ego & Shadow Wounds
• ​A Dual-Track Approach to Integration and Healing

If you want to dive deeper into the neuroscience from today's episode, here are the links to the primary research papers:

1. [Memory Systems & Trauma] Van der Kolk, B. A. (1994). The body keeps the score: Memory and the evolving psychobiology of post-traumatic stress. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 1(5), 253-265. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9384857/
2. [Top-Down & Bottom-Up Regulation] Ogden, P., Minton, K., & Pain, C. (2006). Trauma and the body: A sensorimotor approach to psychotherapy. W. W. Norton & Company. https://sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/resources/
3. [Implicit Memory & Amygdala Function] LeDoux, J. E. (2000). Emotion circuits in the brain. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 23(1), 155-184. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.neuro.23.1.155
4. The Biology of Neural Integration: The Neuroscience of Shadow Integration (A review mapping how higher cognitive prefrontal centres and subcortical limbic regions communicate during shadow work).

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