Natural Emotional Processing for Mental & Physical Health
The Bio-Emotive Framework
Learn how to process emotions, reduce stress, and improve relationships
with the Bio-Emotive Framework
The Bio-Emotive Framework is a new theory of Emotion that emphasizes Emotional Processing as fundamental to the mental and relational health of men and women.
It reframes how we might approach marital and relational challenges, child-behavior challenges, and our society’s most common mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, addiction, and chronic anger. There is also evidence that many chronic illnesses can have emotional components rather than being strictly signs of genetic, cognitive, chemical, or behavioral deficits.
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Key Concepts of the Bio-Emotive Framework
Core-Feelings: These are the feelings that form the basis of the human emotional experience and all people experience the positive or negative version of them.
Social and Survival Emotions: Understanding the distinction between emotions related to social interactions and those related to survival instincts.
Updating Impressions: The process of revising one’s perceptions and beliefs based on experiencing new, positive, updated, emotional experiences.
Feeling-Beliefs: Unconscious beliefs about one’s self that form from unprocessed feelings, which cause a generalization. They influence our perception, identity, emotions, cognitive distortions and behavior.
Emotional Processing: The idea that we must “process” our feelings and emotions, not just analyze, shift-mindsets, or change our behavior.
Chronic Emotional Activation: The concept that many mental and physical health issues stem from prolonged states of unprocessed emotional (autonomic) arousal, rather than being purely psychological disorders.
There is also evidence that many chronic illnesses can have emotional components rather than being strictly signs of genetic, cognitive, chemical, or behavioral deficits.
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Frequently Asked Questions
You can learn it on your own and hire a coach if you need further support. Right now we offer the Self-Paced Course, Group Trainings, memberships, and extensive ebooks and free audio and podcasts for your support.
Yes. In Dr. Tataryn’s early clinical practice, he was referred many clients who were suffering from chronic illnesses such as irritable and inflammatory bowel syndrome, chronic pain, skin conditions, and even some cancers (who had not been responding to medical interventions). In all cases, the quality of life went up, and in many cases their conditions abated or disappeared altogether. One way to understand this is that any medical condition that is either caused or worsened by chronic stress can be helped with the Bio-Emotive Framework. (NOTE: There have been no formal clinical trials testing the influence of the Bio-Emotive Framework on any chronic illness.)
Traditional talk therapy works primarily through understanding and reframing experience. The Bio-Emotive Framework works by identifying what underlying feelings are being activated in the nervous-system and encouraging explicit emotional release as a natural part of integrating the traumatic or challenging experience.
Bio-Emotive Processing is the specific process of noticing, experiencing, differentiating, expressing emotion through Resonance Testing. We have commonly called this “Nedera” as a simple acronym for Notice, Experience, Differentiate, Express, Test for Resonance, Take Action. This process was observed and codified by Dr. Tataryn.
I’ll always be grateful to the Bio-Emotive Framework and the NEDERA Process for helping me to regain this ability, and for showing me how to cry again. Rather than feeling like a stranger or victim to my emotions and feelings, I feel safe, at ease, and at home in my own emotional world.
I can’t recommend the official materials from the Bio-Emotive Team highly enough, especially their Self-Paced Course or any live trainings that they run.
