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Health - Mental
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk • 5 highlights
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Spirituality is about love, truth, goodness, beauty, giving and caring. Spirituality is about wholeness and completion. Spirituality is our ultimate human need. It pushes us to transcend ourselves and become grounded in the ultimate source of reality.
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Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
I think of writing a lot like walking. It’s rarely the most popular, the most effective, or the most efficient way of getting to your destination. I don’t always want to do it, and it’s not always technically enjoyable; sometimes it’s boring or slow, sometimes it’s tiring and pointless, sometimes it’s cold or wet or windy and I’m retracing the same... See more