The Body Keeps the Score: The Essential Guide on How to Heal Your Mind and Body Have you ever wondered why you feel down, anxious, and fearful? Maybe you are depressed, or anxious. Maybe you feel like something is missing in your life. But even if your life looks good on paper-you have a great job, a loving family, and lots of friends-you still have that nagging feeling that something is wrong. You might even wonder if there is something wrong with...

Book Summary of The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk, M.D. About The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk, M.D. Trauma can occur anywhere, any time and to anyone. It takes on many forms — war, rape, crime, car accidents and so on. To the onlooker, it might appear that a traumatic event has a beginning, middle and end. But for those who have experienced it, the trauma just doesn't...

To many people, trauma is something that happens to soldiers and refugees, far away and out of sight. But in fact, trauma is the single greatest threat to public health and well-being that America has ever seen. As humans, we are exposed to a horde of trauma, from physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, to neglect, accidents, and the list can go on and on. And while the naked eye can see the immediate effects of that trauma, it is usually the long-term...

Summary of Bessel van der Kolk MD's The Body Keeps the Score, explores the ways in which trauma rewires the brain and changes the way people experience the world. Trauma affects the mind and body immensely and prevents those affected from living in the present. Van der Kolk, who has researched trauma since the 1970s, first became interested in trauma after meeting with Vietnam veterans who had a very hard time living their lives after returning from...

Reveals how trauma can rewire your body to trigger autoimmune diseases--and provides a comprehensive plan for readers to reset their immune system and finally heal.

"A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains--but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. The latest scientific...

Trauma is a negatively life-altering event or ongoing situation that affects us in mind, body, and soul. As Bessel van der Kolk's (2015) famous book title tells us, "the body keeps the score." So does the human brain. Trauma, even when the event or situation is long in the past, can haunt us. We may feel overwhelmed with tumultuous feelings, such as depression, anger, shame, and grief. Sometimes it feels inescapable; even when we sleep, we have nightmares...

"This book is a guide for people who struggle with dissociation written by a psychologist who struggles with it themselves. It helps readers understand what dissociation is, how to cope with it, foundational healing methods, and how to find the right therapist for you"--

"Exploring the nature of trauma and how best to deal with it is not only a timely task, it is a necessary one. While COVID, isolation, and social unrest don't necessarily cause trauma-trauma is about how one reacts to a thing, not the thing in itself-the fact is that these days many of us are dealing with some sort of trauma. How can we heal? Perhaps through a therapy known as EMDR, which stands for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. Cowritten...