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Why This Book Matters:
The Body Keeps the Score explains the nature of trauma in individuals, and how trauma affects the body long after the traumatic experience.
The Big Takeaways:
- Emotional wounds are an ordinary part of society.
- If Trauma lives inside many people living today, not just from war.
- People are often triggered, forced to endure powerful memories.
- Physical responses to these memories are common, for these flashbacks are realistic to the person experiencing them.
- The trauma individuals endure in childhood follows them throughout their lives.
- Trauma can often shape a child’s personality, following them into adulthood.
- Flashbacks in association with trauma are often intense and detailed, even when the regular memory faded away.
- Trauma causes individuals to hyperfocus on the memory to a point where it feels as if they are experiencing it again.
- Several types of therapy allow those who suffer from trauma to mend the fracture between their physical and emotional being.
- Things like yoga, EMDR, and mindfulness help the individual become more connected with their body, allowing them more control when trauma attempts to impact their body.
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