Your Personality Isn’t You – It’s a Survival Strategy
Why trauma doesn’t break identity- it builds it This is a 6 – minute video overview on the making of personality (by me): 1. The Life With No “Before” Most people think they have a personality. I don’t think they do. What I see, over and over again, …
The purpose of life isn’t meaning. It’s peace.
This is a 15 – minute “Deep Dive” audio on a really deep subject: One of the many avocations I’ve had over my 80 years was serving as the assistant funeral home director at Kilpatrick’s Funeral Homes in West Monroe, Louisiana, in 1966. Amidst the heavy silence of grieving …
The Meteor That Taught Me Why People Stay Silent About Psychological Healing
My Story This is a 6 – minute video overview of my story: It was 1996, just past 5:15 a.m., and I was driving to work at the FAA Terminal Radar Approach Control Facility (TRACON) at Houston Intercontinental Airport. Air traffic control was my full- time job and psychotherapy was …
How Effective Psychotherapy Works: Healing the Emotional Root Through Memory Reconsolidation
Coping Isn’t the Goal. Healing Is. If your therapy sessions focus only on “talk therapy” (CBT), you’re limiting the potential for deep, lasting transformation. All effective therapy modalities incorporate memory reconsolidation into their processes. The best therapeutic approaches don’t just manage behaviors or regulate emotions—they dissolve the emotional charge linked …
Who Decides What Therapy “Works”? Follow the Money
When people hear “evidence‑based therapy,” they assume it means: “This is the treatment proven to work best.” But more often, it means: “This is the treatment someone could afford to study.” This is a 15 – minute “Deep Dive” audio: This is a 6 – minute video overview on this …
Progressive Counting: The Calming Backward-Counting Version
Most people think healing old emotional pain has to be complicated. All of the posts on my blog are uncomplicated. They are all based on a fairly new biological science called “memory reconsolidation”. This is a 6-minute video overview: Our brain has a built-in mechanism for permanently rewriting the …
Mental Health Tips: Perceptual Shifts, Positive Language, and Proactive Mindsets
This is a 5 minute mental upgrade video that highlights the small differences that can make positive differences in your life: These are the posts that this podcast is based on: https://clintmatheny.com/do-not-think-of-a-pink-elephant-with-white-spots/ https://clintmatheny.com/simple-technique-that-can-improve-the-quality-of-your-life/ https://clintmatheny.com/the-3-letter-word/ Clint77090@gmail.Com
20 Truths About Psychiatry
How Antidepressants Actually Work by Witt-Doerring, MD
This is a 16-minute YouTube Video: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 12.7% of persons aged 12 and over in the U.S. reported using an antidepressant medication in the past month (based on data from 2011–2014). Statement of No Financial Interest I hereby declare that …
You Can’t Heal What You Can’t Feel: The Medication Trap—Benzos, Stimulants, and Antidepressants
In their quest to alleviate suffering, medical doctors may have dulled the very instrument of healing: feeling itself. Caution: See Medical Disclaimer at the end This is a 5-minute video overview: For the past five decades, antidepressants SSRIs benzodiazepines, or stimulants like Adderal have been prescribed as frontline treatments …
How To Taper Any Antidepressant
Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring has over a decade of experience as a board-certified psychiatrist and has previously served as a medical officer for the FDA. His expertise lies in a niche area of psychiatry, focusing on the side effects of psychiatric medications and strategies for their safe tapering. This is a …
Self-Directed Protocol: Healing Shame Through Timeline Repositioning
Caution!: Only listen to the audios below in a safe place Shame isn’t who you are – it’s a past-based emotional learning that keeps your nervous system stuck in one moment in time. In this 10-minute self-directed process, using memory reconsolidation, you’ll go to the day before the shame event …
RTM: A Gentle Alternative to Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE)
This is an 5- minute video : As a therapist, our choices about treatment methods are often shaped not only by training and research, but by something deeper: lived experience and ethical grounding. I want to share two key reasons why I personally do not use Prolonged Exposure Therapy …
Psychiatry & Big Pharma: Exposed
Have you ever wondered how the “DSM” (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) to be? This is a must watch or listen to for mental health workers! This is a 5-minute intro video on a very important subject: James Davies, PhD has been vocal about his concerns …
35 Words That Ended 53 Years of PTSD — And Why It Worked
In 1998, during an ordinary walk with my Uncle Red, something extraordinary happened – something neither of us recognized at the time. Before “memory reconsolidation” was a clinical term, I accidentally triggered it. And in just 35 words, his 53 years of combat PTSD dissolved. This is a 3 – …
What Is Non-Content Psychotherapy?
Why Doing Non-Content Psychotherapy is Healthy for the Therapist This is a 6- minute video overview on how to avoid burnout in the psychotherapy profession : Psychotherapy, at its core, is about guiding clients through their emotional and psychological landscapes. Traditionally, therapists delve into the content of their clients’ …
How Emotional Rules Create Your Personality – and How to Reset Them
This is an introduction to a book I am writing. The PDF book is my first and most likely my last. The link to the free book is at the bottom of this post. First: Do you know the 5 – 7 emotions that you experience almost daily? Your Emotional …
How To Stop Playing Psychological Whac-A-Mole
This is a 5-minute video overview: One of the problems I see in psychotherapy is what I call the Psychological Whac-A-Mole Game. A client comes in with anxiety. The therapist works on the anxiety. The anxiety improves, but now shame shows up. The therapist works on the shame. …
Why You Feel the Way You Do: The Question Running Your Life
This is a 4-minute Google video overview: From Imperative Self Analysis to the Emotional Autopilot Reset: I am approaching 81 years of age and have practiced psychotherapy for over 41 years. Like many therapists, I have had favorite modalities. Mine have been Clean Language (what-is-clean-language-therapy/) and the Imperative Self …
How to Break Free from Your Emotional Autopilot Using Imperative Self Analysis
We’re children pretending to be adults – most of us just don’t realize it. And the part doing the pretending? That’s your Imperative Self. Almost every emotional problem is driven by an unconscious childhood command – Do, Be, or Get — that shapes your perception, reactions, identity, and behaviors. That’s …
How a One Hour Therapy Session Prevented a Murder
This is a 6-minute video overview of this event: Recently, I was contemplating my 40 + years as a therapist, pondering the true impact of my work. Reflecting on the past, I recalled numerous clients who considered suicide, whom I’ve supported through their darkest times. Did my other client …
The Myth of Addiction: Two (2) Withdrawals — Physical and Emotional
“The cure for pain is in the pain.” Rumi This brief 6-minute video shares my perspective on the myth of addiction—and offers a path toward healing that challenges conventional thinking: When I was 23-years old, I asked my 48-year old father that hadn’t had a drink of alcohol for …
# “and what would you like to have happen?”
My Journey with Clean Language Therapy This is a 7-minute video overview: In 1993, I had the privilege of learning “Clean Language” from David Grove, a therapist from New Zealand. This innovative approach, known as “Clean Language Therapy,” quickly proved itself to be a powerful method for helping clients …
An excellent example of the use of “Clean Language “ in Coaching & Therapy
“Clean Language” is a distinctive approach in therapy that empowers the client by placing their own words and metaphors at the heart of the conversation. The power of Clean Language lies in its client-centered methodology. Therapists practicing Clean Language have to be meticulously attentive to the client’s language, using it as …
# Curing Brain Fog: A Back to the Future Approach – Part 3
In 2010, a 40-year-old woman from New Zealand, one of my “Imperative Self Analysis” clients, cleared her brain fog in a single 30-minute session. With her permission, I recorded the session and have included it in this post. There are two (2) audio recordings on this post. The first one …
Healing eczema all over body using the “Placebo Procedure”
I received this email below in December 2023, on a client’s use of the “Placebo Procedure”. This is an 11-minute “Deep Dive” audio on her experiences in curing her eczema: It only takes a few minutes to do this procedure. Watch the other 3 posts on the power of …
The Unintended Consequences of Medical Language: Navigating the Nocebo Effect
This is a 5-minute video overview of the negative placebo effect: Doctors, in their unique role, possess the ability to cast spells—not with wands, but with words. Their dialogue, delivered in the clinical sanctity of examination rooms, wields immense power. Patients, in their most vulnerable state, hang on every …
Why I Am Easy To Forget
“In a healing journey, pain and emotions are like transient whispers of the heart; once mended, they often fade into the silent archives of our being.” Clint Matheny Since launching my “Fear of Flying” practice in 1985, primarily using what was then called the NLP Trauma/Phobia Cure, now recognized as …
“Lovely Day” Is My Wife’s Favorite Feel Good Song
How to relearn how to breathe
Are you a belly breather or chest breather? Put one hand on your chest and the other hand on your belly. Notice what hand rises when you inhale. Babies and relaxed individuals are belly breathers. Chest breathers may have had a trauma or traumas in their past that caused them …
One Of My Favorite Videos
A 5-year old interviewing a 104 – year old:
A Lifetime of Work: Lessons I Shared with My Grandchildren in 2020
I am now 80 years old. I was born in 1945. I sent this email in 2020, to my teenage grandkids when I was 75 years old. This is a 19 – minute Google “Deep Dive” audio: “The most important part is in the next-to-last paragraph. I started thinking …
What Sex Therapists Wish You Knew
Catherine Pearson of The NY Times, asked nearly a dozen experts in sex and intimacy for the advice they repeat again and again. For starters, they said, don’t get so hung up on how often you have, or want, sex. More: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/well/sex-therapy-questions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
How to Align Your Perceptual Positions
Perceptual positions are the ways we perceive ourselves and others in any situation. There are three main perceptual positions: self, other, and observer. Each position has its own advantages and disadvantages, but they can also be misaligned or distorted, leading to confusion, conflict, or dissatisfaction. The recognition that Perceptual Positions …
Do we have “Free Will”?
Are you absolutely sure you have “free will”? Does a person that has claustrophobia have free will to relax or panic in confined spaces? Does this same person have “free will” to get help to eliminate their phobic responses to confined spaces? If you have read my previous post you …
The Illusion of Free Will & What Would Jesus Do? : A Moral Compass in a Mechanized Mind
This is a short 4 – minute Video Overview: This is a 19 – minute “Deep Dive”: Many of us like to believe we’re entirely in control of our actions – rational agents, freely choosing right from wrong. But what if much of what we do is governed …
Einstein, Fear, and the Nervous System Behind Politics
At the beginning of the Cold War and the emerging nuclear arms race between USA and the USSR in the late 1940s, a reporter asked Albert Einstein: “What question haven’t you been asked that you wish someone would ask?” He replied: “Is the world a safe place or a dangerous …
Lack Of Empathy Breeds Cruelty To Others
What if cruelty isn’t always monstrous, but simply a result of misaligned perspectives? This is a 6-minute video: The question of what causes human evil – cruelty, indifference, and acts of harm – has haunted philosophers, mental health workers, and theologians for centuries. We’ve blamed ideology, trauma, biology, and …
The Happiest Man in the Nursing Home
This is a 17 – minute “Deep Dive” into the inner world of a man paralyzed from the neck down – a man who chooses internal peace over physical recovery: In 1979, my next‑door neighbor in Houston, Texas was in a car accident that changed everything. I’m writing about …
The Biggest Psychotherapy Breakthrough of the 21st Century: “Memory Reconsolidation”
In 1984, I didn’t know the term “memory reconsolidation”. No one in the psychotherapy field did. What I knew – purely from results – was that if you could get a person into the emotional state tied to a traumatic event, and then require them to perform a specific internal …