In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
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In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
The Body Keeps The Score
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The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
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Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
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One of the most devastating effects of trauma is that people’s biology changes into a biology of threat; this is expressed on multiple levels, in stress hormones, immunology and what the brain selects to pay attention to. The intrinsic reward system changes, as do “attractors”—what turns you on or leaves you cold. As a consequence, traumatized peop... See more
Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. • The Body Keeps The Score
Body sensation, rather than intense emotion, is the key to healing trauma.
amazon.com • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick: 9781556432330: Amazon.com: Books
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This means helping them to respond appropriately to danger but, even more, to recover the capacity to experience safety, relaxation, and true reciprocity.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Lael Johnson and added
When the neo-cortex overrides the instinctual responses that would initiate the completion of this cycle, we will be traumatized.