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Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. • The Body Keeps The Score
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
An experience becomes traumatic when this natural flight/flight defense is aborted.
Elizabeth Hopper • Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body
So, now we have moved from thinking about one form of trauma to four. Trauma might be: Intrusive and disempowering, e.g., being sworn at or beaten Intrusive and falsely empowering, e.g., incest, emotional caretaking (regulating a parent) Abandoning and disempowering, e.g., “you’re unworthy,” scapegoating Abandoning and falsely empowering, e.g., “yo
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trauma can affect our ability to imagine a different future.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
When people are traumatized, our internal systems remain aroused. We become hypervigilant but are unable to locate the source of this pervasive threat. This situation causes fear and reactivity to escalate, amplifying the need to identify the source of the threat. The result: we become likely candidates for re-enactmentin search of an enemy.
Peter A. Levine • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
“Most of the world expects trauma and suffering. Most people live through it. It’s not an exceptional, one-time experience. So even if you get health issues as side effects from trauma, it’s like, well, yeah. People suffer, people get sick. And so it’s only privileged people who think of it otherwise.”