The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Often survivors find it difficult to: • Recognize their feelings • Differentiate between emotions • Express feelings • Calm down when they get upset Many survivors feel: • Disconnected, isolated, and alone • A pervasive sense of shame • Just a few feelings, rather than a full range of emotions • Out of control with their rage or other feelings • Co

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Neuroplastic healing must be sequenced in the right order for maximal effect

Imagine running a very large voltage of energy through old tattered wires that can’t hold the charge. It might handle it for a little while. But sooner or later, it’ll blow.

The human system is no different.

If the early nervous system foundations weren’t built well and hav... See more

New research into brain functioning has given us a lot of very useful information about how triggering works on the physiological level. We have an organ called the amygdala that does the job of remembering situations associated with strong emotions, both pleasurable and terrifying, and setting us into action. The most familiar form of this phenome

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