Episode 21 of the Becoming Centered Podcast is available on all major podcasting platforms. It focuses on tools and techniques for helping kids become physiologically centered.

This week’s Episodes 22 focuses on a way to understand four different styles of reasoning that different parts of the brain use to make sense of the world. Part of your brain only understands the world in terms of emotions and relies on Emotional-Reasoning to try and make sense of associations between experiences and feelings. Another part of your brain understands the world in terms of correlation among events, which it tends to interpret as set rules. While these rules do describe a lot of social situations they’re not based on logic but on Magical-Reasoning. Different parts of the brain develop the ability to use Logical-Reasoning to discover cause and effect. Yet other parts of the brain rely more on Influencer-Reasoning in which one looks to others for leadership and copying. All four types of reasoning occur simultaneously. Episode 23 explores how to help develop each type in child and youth clients and how to better integrate the four types.

Episode 24 takes a more wholistic view and discusses how kids in residential treatment need to see themselves as the hero of their own life story. The crucial quality to nurture is courage, which can only exist in the face of fear. The Eight-Fears-of-All-Human-Beings is presented.