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Coercive Control: The Hidden Mechanism Behind the Fox
Coercive control is not a personality, it is a mechanism: two hidden Family Rules that lock together. Matt Hudson on the fox, the full stop, the Drama Triangle, and the fourth position at the centre.
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Spot the Fox: How Good People Disappear Inside a Relationship
On hidden Family Rules, the invisible leash, and why shouting at someone you love only ever makes it worse.
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The Body Doesn’t Keep the Score. Your Brain Keeps Predicting It.
How predictive neuroscience and behavioural biomarkers could help solve the billion-person mental health challenge. For more than a decade, one sentence has quietly shaped the way the world thinks about trauma. The body keeps the score. It has become more than the title of an influential book. It has become a cultural truth. Therapists repeat…
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Beyond the Cell: Could Memory Exist in the Human Information Field?
What if Bruce Lipton is right that cells store information—but he’s only seeing part of the picture? For decades, neuroscience has searched for memory inside the brain. Bruce Lipton expanded the search to the cell membrane. Rupert Sheldrake proposed that memory may exist within morphic fields. Donald Forsdyke went further still, suggesting that memory may…
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Are You Brave Enough to Be Well?
Have you ever stopped to consider why you might fear genuine wellness more than remaining unwell? This article reveals why individuals hold onto illness via hidden Emotional Memory Images—those profound emotional imprints that form a pain-rooted identity. Explore the courage needed to release these imprints, dismantle typical excuses such as “It’s simply who I am,”…
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Why You Don’t Sleep and How You Can
Sleep should be the safest place in the world. A nightly homecoming. A reset. A repair. A quiet reunion with ourselves. Yet millions lie awake each night, exhausted but wired — replaying conversations, tightening their breath, feeling an unease they can’t explain. Some wake repeatedly. Others wake gasping. Others never reach the depth of sleep…
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A Perspective on Adversity, Emotional Memory Images and Pre-Sleep Arousal in Sleep Disorders
By Matt Hudson and Dr. Nazish Chaudhary Abstract One of the vital body processes in human beings is sleep. The quality and quantity of sleep have a crucial role to play in a person’s wellbeing. Mental health, cognitive performance, and physiological immunity depend on adequate sleep. People with mental health conditions such as post-traumatic stress…
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Split-Second Unlearning: The Hidden Key to Unlocking Workplace Performance
Is the. Workplace becoming and Emotional Minefield? In the modern workplace, pressure is often framed as a matter of productivity. We talk about deadlines, time management, and communication skills as if stress were simply a scheduling issue. But look more closely, and another layer emerges. Beneath strained relationships, low morale, or poor decision-making often lies…
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The Search for Memory: From Brain Tissue to Extracorporeal Fields and the Hive Mind
Introduction: The Great Memory Puzzle For more than a century, neuroscience has been chasing memory like a mirage. We can measure its traces, manipulate its correlates, even describe the molecular changes that accompany learning, but no one has ever pulled a memory out of a neuron and said, “Here it is.” This puzzle has haunted…
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Could Emotional Memory Images Disturb Sleep and Drive Pain?
Sleep is one of the most vital physiological processes human beings undertake, playing a crucial role in physical and mental health, cognitive function, and immune regulation[i]. The quality and quantity of sleep significantly impact overall well-being, yet many individuals struggle with sleep disturbances, often without understanding the underlying cause. Those with mental health conditions such…
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Pain Isn’t the Problem, Our Medical Model Is
The shortcomings of Western medicine are significant, often stemming from a medical model that emphasises treating symptoms rather than promoting holistic healing. This focus has contributed to the growth of a substantial drug industry, which, although lucrative, frequently neglects the root causes of illness. Even with advancements in medical technology and treatment options, many individuals…
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Sticky Pain and Other Chronic Psychophysiological Dis-eases
Chronic psychophysiological dis-eases, commonly known as “sticky” conditions, create complex connections between the mind and body that can be challenging to untangle. These conditions often arise from undiagnosed trauma and present as ongoing physical pain or discomfort. This article delves into what these diseases are, the diagnostic processes involved, and the significant role trauma plays…
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The Healing Power of Metaphors: A Biophilic Mindset for Pain and Healing
If pain had a voice, it wouldn’t be clinical. It wouldn’t speak in milligrams or MRI scans. It would whisper, roar, curl up in corners, or dance like rain across your skin. And that’s why metaphor matters, because pain doesn’t speak science. It tells a story. In the past century, we’ve seen the rise of…
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The Metaphor Cure – How Language Can Heal What Medicine Can’t
This piece has been folded into the fuller essay The Healing Power of Metaphors: A Biophilic Mindset for Pain and Healing, which now carries its opening and argument in one place. If pain had a voice, it wouldn’t be clinical. It wouldn’t speak in milligrams or MRI scans. It would whisper, roar, curl up in…
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Metaphors, Biophilia, and the Psychophysiological Landscape of Pain
This piece has been folded into the fuller essay The Healing Power of Metaphors: A Biophilic Mindset for Pain and Healing, which now carries its opening and argument in one place. Introduction Metaphors are not just decorative linguistic flourishes—they are foundational cognitive tools that guide perception, decision-making, and behaviour. In our 2023 article, Perspectives on…
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Neglect: A Moment Missed, A Lifetime Imprinted. How Split-Second Unlearning Offers a Paradigm Shift in the Treatment of Childhood Emotional Neglect
Childhood emotional neglect (CEN) is often a silent trauma, difficult to detect, harder to define, and routinely ignored in mental health practice. Unlike abuse, which leaves bruises that can be seen or scars that can be documented, neglect is the absence of what should have been: warmth, presence, mirroring, and emotional attunement. The impact? Subtle…
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Could psychophysiological dis-ease be a result of an undiagnosed trauma?
Psychophysiological dis-ease refers to conditions related to psychophysiology where psychological factors, such as stress, influence physiological functioning, often resulting in ailments like hypertension, tension headaches, and ulcers. Understanding the role of trauma, whether acute, chronic, or developmental, is crucial. Unresolved or undiagnosed trauma can significantly impact mental and physical health. The connection between trauma and…
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Conditions Treated by Split-Second Unlearning
A list of some of the conditions that have been successfully treated using Split-Second Unlearning Split-Second Unlearning (SSU) is a therapeutic approach proposed by Hudson and Johnson to address psychophysiological disorders by targeting Emotional Memory Images (EMIs) formed through traumatic or significant emotional events. These EMIs are believed to trigger chronic psychophysiological stress responses, contributing…
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The Brain’s “Delete” Button: How Firing Out of Sync Enables Split-Second Unlearning, Offering New Hope for Mental and Physical Well-being
For decades, we’ve understood that the brain learns by strengthening connections between neurons that fire together – Hebb’s famous learning rule. This “cells that fire together, wire together” principle has been the bedrock of our understanding of learning and memory[i]. However, new research[ii] is revealing a complementary and equally crucial mechanism: a neural “delete” button…
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The Wolf at the Door: Avicenna, Emotional Memory Images, and the Hidden Cost of Modern Stress
In the 11th century, Persian polymath Avicenna (Ibn Sina) conducted an experiment that would echo through the ages of medicine, psychology, and now, behavioural neuroscience. His now-famous study involving two lambs and a wolf laid the groundwork for understanding the devastating impact of chronic emotional stress on physical health. Today, as we face unprecedented levels…
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