For therapy and healing to work, a person needs to be firmly grounded in the present. The brain cannot organize the experience of trauma in proper context and meaning without a fully embodied sense of being in the present moment.
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North Gate Book Club: The Body Keeps The Score: Chapter Three Summary & Discussion
The Body Keeps the Score Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. Founder and medical director of the Trauma Center in Brookline Massachusetts. Professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine Director of the National Complex Trauma Treatment Network Published in 2014 Part One: THE REDISCOVERY OF…
North Gate Book Club: The Body Keeps The Score: Chapter Two Summary & Discussion
Restoring autonomy involves participation in one’s healing process rather than being the patient who goes to the doctor to get fixed. The institutions of modern medicine are committed to the brain chemistry model and do not consider the fact that people can change their own physiology without the use of prescribed drugs.
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