Hi everyone. I’m Kelly Mahler, Occupational Therapist. I want to take the time to talk about what makes interoception based supports so different then any other currently used approach out there when we’re talking about emotion regulation approaches or behavioral approaches. Interoception is so very different. I wanted to focus in on six principles that really sets the interoception based work, and our interoception curriculum apart from all of the other frameworks and approaches.
Principle #1
The Interoception Curriculum is set up to be a process where we are validating and honoring each person’s unique inner experience. What we know is that we all have very different inner experiences.
- What your body feels like when you’re hungry is different than what my body feels like when I’m hungry.
- What your body feels like when you’re anxious different than what my body feels like when I’m anxious.
Interoception based work is a process that is honoring and validating each person’s unique inner experience. This is quite different than other approaches that might be rooted in a process of trying to make someone more typical or having more typical experience or to act more typical. The interoception curriculum is completely against that notion and really it’s about honoring and validating our uniqueness.