Neuroscience research from Matthew Lieberman of UCLA shows how just acknowledging stress and adversity can move reactivity in your brain from the automatic and reactive centers to the more conscious and deliberate ones. For example, therapists who work with veterans suffering from PTSD use a desensitization method that gets to the root cause of the trauma, which is usually a very specific event. This allows the person to acknowledge it, see it, and eventually move past it.
