Sublime

For real change to take place, the body needs to learn that the danger has passed and to live in the reality of the present.

“Um estudo após o outro revela que as mulheres que são violentadas por homens que conhecem nem mesmo identificam a experiência como estupro.”

please check out Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma; Pat Ogden, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy; and Dan Siegel and his many books.

Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past.

When we cannot rely on our body to signal safety or warning and instead feel chronically overwhelmed by physical stirrings, we lose the capacity to feel at home in our own skin and, by extension, in the world.

Psychiatrist James Gilligan, in his book Violence[8],makes this eloquent statement: …“the attempt to achieve and maintain justice, or to undo or prevent injustice, is the one and only universal cause of violence.” (italics his) On an emotional and intellectual level, Dr. Gilligan’s insight is profound and accurate, but how does it translate into

After trauma the world becomes sharply divided between those who know and those who don’t. People who have not shared the traumatic experience cannot be trusted, because they can’t understand it. Sadly, this often includes spouses, children, and co-workers.