MBSEP for Couples Movie Review: Superman (2025) Lois & Clark Finally Get the Therapy They Deserve

Emotional Processing Spoiler Alert

★★★★★ (5 out of 5 nervous systems restored)

It starts with a 12-minute interview and ends with a rupture that’s been decades in the making.

In James Gunn’s Superman (2025), Lois Lane doesn’t just ask Superman tough questions, she confronts the man behind the myth. When he slips into third-person PR-speak (“Superman represents hope…”), she calls it out instantly. Their interview morphs into something far more vulnerable: two lovers wrestling with identity, perception, and power.

And just before the cut, she drops the line that echoes through the rest of the film:

“I knew this wouldn’t work.”

That wasn’t just dialogue. That was a wound speaking.

That’s when they called me.

Fresh off the Daily Planet soundstage and still raw from the interview fallout, Lois and Clark walked into their first Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing (MBSEP) for Couples session with all the signs of a classic rupture: protectiveness, fear, longing, and beneath it all, love.

What followed? Nervous system alchemy.

From Alien Arguments to Attuned Repair

MBSEP isn’t just talk therapy, it’s a somatic excavation. And Clark’s system? More pressure than a tectonic plate. But even Superman needs someone to say, “It’s safe to land.”

In session, we slowed down time. Breath by breath. No capes. No journalism. Just nervous systems, face to face.

Lois admitted that the line, “I knew this wouldn’t work”, wasn’t about truth. It was about panic. About the moment her body said “retreat before you get hurt.” Her words were a shield.

Clark, with eyes soft and voice breaking, said:

“That line… it haunted me.”

And then, “Do you still believe it?”

That moment of inquiry? That was the real superpower.

Favorite Quotes from the Session

• Lois: “When I said it, I didn’t mean I didn’t love you, I meant I didn’t think I was safe enough to stay.”

• Clark: “Every time I try to protect you, I forget you don’t need protection, you need presence. You don’t need to be saved, you need to feel safe with me.”

• Me (with reverence): “That line wasn’t the end of your story. It was the doorway into the truth. Where does it live in your body now?”

Breakthrough Moment:

Clark’s shoulders drop. Lois softens. The charge dissolves. And then, like lightning in reverse, the line transforms:

“I knew this wouldn’t work” becomes

“I didn’t know how to let it.”

That’s MBSEP. We don’t erase pain, we let it reveal what was hidden beneath.

Director’s Cut Recommendation:

Go back and rewatch that interview scene after their somatic repair. Suddenly, the posture, the breath, the fight, it all makes sense. Every rupture was a plea for safety. Every word, a map toward reconnection.

Final Verdict:

Superman (2025) delivers more than myth. It gives us the raw, sacred mess of real relationship. And thanks to MBSEP for Couples, Lois and Clark don’t just fly, they land together. Safely. Softly. Again and again.

Coming soon to a Fortress of Solitude near you… or maybe just your living room couch, where you learn to breathe with the one you love.

And.. look for me- I play a soldier in the scene where Superman is arrested! - Craig Thomas McAdams LPCC MA