The Best You - A Coaching Podcast: Personal Growth Through Real Conversations · Gary Gillan

Emotional Resolution, Not Regulation with Cedric Bertelli

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Cedric says MRes works by targeting the body, not the client’s story or label.

1. The Best You interview with Cedric Bertelli centers on Emotional Resolution, or MRes, and the claim that emotional patterns can be resolved rather than managed. 2. Gary interviews Cedric Bertelli, founder of the Emotional Health Institute and co-developer of EMRES, because Cedric connects clinical practice, somatic therapy, and neuroscience. 3. The episode asks what MRes is for: helping people move from survival-mode regulation to lasting change in fear, self-doubt, shame, and other limiting emotional patterns. 4. Cedric says he grew up in a village in the south of France with about 80 people and was especially influenced by his grandfather, who was 101 when he died. 5. He links that grandfather to MRes by describing him as a World War II veteran in the maquis, which led Cedric to think differently about resilience after war. 6. Cedric says he trained as a chef, worked in hospitality, and built a career with the Ritz-Carlton in California before shifting into body-based work. 7. He describes his own experience of anxiety, depression, self-directed anger, and alcohol use as a way of regulating his internal state. 8. Cedric says the 2008-2009 economy shift helped him leave hospitality and return to France to study somatic therapy because psychotherapy had left him controlled but numb. 9. He says MRes was formally created in 2019, after earlier work with Dr. Jacques Fumet and the opening of the Emotional Health Institute in France. 10. Cedric names Lisa Feldman Barrett’s How Emotions Are Made as a major influence and says the work also draws on Spinoza, Merleau-Ponty, Henri Bergson, and Gilles Deleuze. 11. He says the brain is constantly predicting, and he uses a green apple example to show how a familiar sensation becomes expected before the bite. 12. Cedric says one surprising taste, like “smoked salmon” from a pink ice-cream scoop, can update a prediction in about one second. 13. He argues that a debilitating emotional pattern begins with an instant of trauma, which he defines as “too much” physical or emotional stress for the person at that moment. 14. Cedric says dissociation during that moment is what matters, because the brain records sensations, environment, and meaning without its usual conscious filter. 15. He distinguishes conscious emotions, unconscious emotions like shame or guilt, and subconscious tensions that shape reactions before a person can name them. 16. Cedric says MRes avoids working on the trauma story directly and instead asks questions to the body so the practitioner does not get trapped in the client’s narrative. 17. He describes the session style as practical and direct, with questions aimed at fears and sensations rather than at intellectual explanation. 18. Cedric says many people need help recognizing body sensations first, and he begins with hunger, thirst, and the need to go to the bathroom as examples of interoception. 19. Listeners interested in somatic therapy, coaching, and body-based emotional work will get the most from this conversation. 20. Listeners wanting a quick inspirational interview without neuroscience detail may skip this one.

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