Leah Benson Therapy

07/23/2025

The Power of Your Goals 💥💥💥

Feeling pleasant or unpleasant? Those feelings are tied to how fast you’re moving toward your
goals—like landing that raise or finding love. Don’t like how you feel? Consider recalibrating
those expectations!

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07/22/2025

Everybody, this is Mark Miller PhD, senior cog sci researcher and my predictive processing teacher.

07/21/2025

Your brain is always predicting whether your body’s needs (like glucose or rest) are going to be
met as expected in the next moment. Feeling off? That’s your brain signaling you to pay
attention and take action!

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https://leahbensontherapy.com/why-you-feel-good-or-bad-understanding-affect-in-body-based-psychotherapy/

07/16/2025

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07/16/2025

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07/16/2025

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07/16/2025

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07/16/2025

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07/16/2025

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07/16/2025

Ever feel like life is nothing but a roller coaster of emotional ups and downs? Or a gray
emotional void? If so, there’s a reason, and there’s a way to uncover it.

Enter, bioenergetic therapy—a body-based therapy born of the traditions of depth
psychotherapy. In this therapy, symptom management isn’t the goal. Peace, ease, joy and
pleasure are.

Find out more in Emotional Utopia. A book I wrote for you to open up the black box of what
REAL psychotherapy is. (Because there’s a difference between real psychotherapy and coaching disguised as psychotherapy.)

Checkout my video about this: https://leahbensontherapy.com/finding-meaning-in-a-successful-life/

07/16/2025

Understanding core affect, aka your mood, your sense of feeling good or bad, can tell you a lot about yourself, as an agent and as a system.

Understanding core affect, aka your mood, your sense of feeling good or bad, can tell you a lot about yourself, as an agent and as a system. Predictive processing is

07/14/2025

Let’s be honest. This phrase doesn’t really mean anything.

I used to say it because it sounded like a good way to talk about how important it is to “bring the body into therapy.” But now I think it just sounds silly because it’s not ‘feeling’ that’s key. It’s how you’re making sense of the feelings in your body that’s key.

There is no inherent meaning in any feeling that comes from your body. You learned how to
make sense of feelings in your body through your social and cultural upbringing.

In my book Emotional Utopia, I explain how bringing a specific focus on your body in therapy can reveal how you make sense of yourself and the world. Which in turn helps you know a little something more about what your goals are in life and how you are trying to meet them, for better or worse—which is the whole point of therapy.

Checkout my video about this: https://leahbensontherapy.com/finding-meaning-in-a-successful-life/