Trauma-informed movement and embodied healing are becoming essential components of many approaches to mental and physical well-being as understanding of the mind-body connection grows. These works examine how healing from trauma, long-term stress, and emotional dysregulation can be aided by movement, breathing, body awareness, and nervous system regulation. These books provide insightful information based on…
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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk – Understanding Somatic Memory
Trauma has long been understood as a psychological experience, but in The Body Keeps the Score, psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk argues that trauma is just as much a physical experience as it is an emotional one. Drawing on decades of clinical practice and neuroscience research, van der Kolk explores how traumatic experiences are stored…