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(You can read more about the fascinating history of neurofeedback in the Jim Robbins [2000] book, A Symphony in the Brain.)

EMDR was far more effective for adult-onset trauma, and it cured only 9 percent of childhood trauma survivors. But at this point, 9 percent was better than nothing.

Bridget Flynn Walker, a clinical psychologist and author, asserts that CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) is the most researched therapy and has the most evidence-based results.5 With CBT, its name reflects the premise: The way we think influences how we feel and, therefore, how we behave. So, if we change the way we think, it changes not only how

the pattern shown in the first illustration above.9 Today there are a variety of apps that can help improve HRV with the aid of a smartphone.10

I developed a variation of this method for use in large workshops that you could do with a few trusted friends. I ask people to line up facing each other in two long lines, say of twenty or thirty people each, and I request that they each look at the badge of the person in front of them for a few seconds and consider the pain and damage that the pe

This suggested that for many traumatized people, reexposure to stress might provide a similar relief from anxiety.17 It was an interesting experiment, but it did not fully explain why Julia kept going back to her violent pimp.

That was the core of a powerful new psychotherapy technique called systematic desensitization, in which people with phobias imagined gradually more and more anxiety-provoking images while staying relaxed through the use of methods of muscular relaxation.

Anything that you link to your self-worth can give rise to shame.