The Evidence Based Therapist is back. We know. It's becoming the bit. This time there's a reason that should hold: Bridger and Caleb are rewriting the Somatic Integration and Processing (SIP) materials against the last seven or eight years of published research, which means reading the articles anyway. So this run of episodes is the reading, out loud, with commentary. Before the first article, a frame. When SIP was first written, the neuroscience in it was modular on purpose: amygdala, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, the triune brain, about as far as a training room could be asked to go. The field's shared vocabulary has moved since then, and that opens room to teach from two frameworks the hosts have been circling for years. Spatiotemporal neuroscience, Georg Northoff's attempt at a common currency between brain and mind. And network neuroscience, where what we call a disorder reads as a signature of balance among the default mode, salience, and central executive networks. One rule sits over all of it: neuroscience is useless in a clinical conversation unless it changes your presence. IN THIS EPISODE • Welcome back to the Evidence Based Therapist, where we read so you don't have to (but we'd love it if you did) • What happened to the neurodivergence and religious trauma project • Why now: "I miss you," and a SIP rewrite that requires reading everything • What got cut from the original SIP training, and why modular neuroscience was the ceiling • Neurobollocks, and the simple brain stories that misguide more than they guide • The rule: neuroscience is useless unless it changes your presence • Presence and presencing: prosody, cadence, eye contact, moving toward or away, open versus closed • The SIP rewrite's starting assumption: life, and we as an extension of it, is utterly out of control • A time-bound body in space, entropy, free energy, and what "adaptive" is adapting to • Embedded, embodied, enacted, extended: four kinds of containment • The DSM as a standardized context for conversation, and the assumptions worth questioning • Why spatiotemporal neuroscience: Northoff's iceberg and the bottom of the ocean • Chemicals in water: the chemical calculus between one cell and the next • Large-scale brain networks: default mode, salience, central executive • The whiteboard: anxiety, depression, PTSD, and a first pass at OCD in time and space • Neuroscience doesn't make you more certain. You are still out of control. • Carlo Rovelli, On the Equality of All Things, and a universe made of relationships • Relating versus controlling: psychopharmacology, psychedelics, and the humors • Enactments: why did you get into this field, and you can't say "to help people" • Objectivity, subjectivity, relativity • Next up: Flights and Perchings of the BrainMind, for as many episodes as it takes • Within and Between: the SIP Substack, and a free version of the workbook on the way NEXT ON THE SHOW Flights and Perchings of the BrainMind: A Temporospatial Approach to Psychotherapy. Chan, Northoff, Karasik, Ouyang & Williams (2022), Frontiers in Psychology. Open access: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.828035/full RESOURCES & LINKS Within and Between, the Substack for the SIP model (short think pieces, articles, and a free version of the workbook as the rewrite progresses): https://somaticintegrationprocessing.substack.com/ Somatic Integration and Processing training with Beyond Healing Institute: https://connectbeyondhealing.com/?utm_source=ebt&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=EBT_SpatiotemporalNeuro_Therapists_Fall_2026 Carlo Rovelli, On the Equality of All Things: Lessons on Physics and Philosophy (Scribner, 2026) EMDR and the Therapeutic Relationship: Reclaiming the Relational Thread, Bridger Falkenstien and Jen Savage: https://connectbeyondhealing.com/the-relational-thread/?utm_source=ebt&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=relational_thread ABOUT THE EVIDENCE BASED THERAPIST The podcast where we read so you don't have to. Bridger Falkenstien and Caleb Boston read peer-reviewed research and talk through what it changes about the way you show up with clients, as a psychotherapist, counselor, or mental health professional. A Think Beyond Media production, hosted by Beyond Healing. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
