{"id":3971,"date":"2025-03-09T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchemyfor.life\/balancecoaching\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2025-03-07T19:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:56:42","slug":"intellectual-injury-what-the-heck-is-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchemyfor.life\/balancecoaching\/2025\/03\/09\/intellectual-injury-what-the-heck-is-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Injury\u2014what the heck is that?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I like to apply analogical reasoning,  You can call it conceptual metaphors.  And if both of those are confusing, how about applying the concept of one domain to another.  Still confused?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, we talked about liminal spaces which don&#8217;t look or sound right.  But you can then take that into the <em>emotional<\/em> domain and talk about things like a bride on the night before her wedding, or how it feels to be in a doctor&#8217;s office waiting room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Physical Injury<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When you receive a physical injury, you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Assess what caused it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Give TLC to that area.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Build it back up and then some to make sure it doesn&#8217;t happen again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Emotional Injury<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We do the same for emotional injuries.  We figure out what caused it, why it hurt so badly, and then we build it up by toughening up our metaphorical skin, or addressing the thing that causes it to hurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Intellectual Injury<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>But what about intellectual injury?  Is that even a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well it is now, and let&#8217;s talk about it, and why it might be the most important one.<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Intellectual Injury\u2014what the heck is that?\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-03-09T05:54:00+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT11M06S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\nI like to apply analogical reasoning,  You can call it conceptual metaphors.  And if both of those are confusing, how about applying the concept of one domain to another.  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