Ben Yalom on Nonverbal Truths - Therapist Confidential

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]For many people, the kind of discursive, rational language that I need to go through to explain my story to you is not the best way of me exploring my own being. And we have meanings and understandings that are non-verbal, um that live in our bodies as well as in our brains.

[00:00:22]You know, there's all sorts of research to back this up. None of it quite directly looks at this, but that's where my work is right now. But it's to let people have access to their experience in something that is not rational or discursive, because emotions, I think, often don't work that way. And then going on a journey that looks at some deep questions, but in a way that it doesn't bear the cognitive load and anxiety that comes from any of us when we have to express ourselves cognitively.