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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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10 minute read
Published Sep 8, 2015
What you'll learn
We humans may be resilient creatures, but many have experienced traumatic events that can live on in brain and body and bar us from a sense of belonging and enjoyment of the present.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Trauma is a state of being stuck and running for your life well after the original threat is over.
- 2 Post-traumatic stress disorder was not a recognized theory until 1980.
- 3 For every traumatized soldier returning home, there are ten children for whom home is a warzone.
- 4 Trauma is not something that just lives on “in your head”: it’s deeply embedded in your body.
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