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Are traumatized people condemned to seek refuge in what is familiar? If so, why, and is it possible to help them become attached to places and activities that are safe and pleasurable?
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“The Long Arm of Childhood Trauma,”
Stephanie Foo • What My Bones Know
A person can also get stuck in overwhelm through developmental trauma. This is different from shock trauma in that it is not caused by a shock to the system, but by a repeated failure to get what you need.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
Against PTSD
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to vanquishing trauma comes not through confronting it directly, but by working with its reflection, mirrored in our instinctual responses.
Peter A. Levine • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
trauma is resistant to most forms of treatment.
Peter A. Levine • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
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Many traumatized individuals are too hypervigilant to enjoy the ordinary pleasures that life has to offer, while others are too numb to absorb new experiences—or to be alert to signs of real danger.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
In trauma, the body’s alarm systems turn on and then never quite turn off. And we experience the intense suffering of never truly feeling relaxed, at ease in life, always intensely on guard, with the primitive brain constantly scanning for threat or opportunity. Our inner sentry is always on watch. We cannot sleep. Our trust in the rightness of
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