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DISSOCIATION Children who are abused often disconnect from their bodies so that they will not feel what is being done to them. When an experience is too painful to endure, children emotionally and psychically separate from the experience.
Ellen Bass • The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
violence makes it very difficult for any escape from the pattern to be effective.
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
The training of competent trauma therapists involves learning about the impact of trauma, abuse, and neglect and mastering a variety of techniques that can help to (1) stabilize and calm patients down, (2) help to lay traumatic memories and reenactments to rest, and (3) reconnect patients with their fellow men and women.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Body Trauma Expert: This Eye Movement Trick Can Fix Your Trauma! The Body Keeps The Score!
youtube.comIt is amazing how many psychological problems involve difficulties with sleep, appetite, touch, digestion, and arousal. Any effective treatment for trauma has to address these basic housekeeping functions of the body.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
We deliberately tried to collect just isolated fragments of their experience—particular images, sounds, and feelings—rather than the entire story, because that is how trauma is experienced.