Summary of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk MD

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk - Book Summary - Readtrepreneur
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An attractive new alternative to tackle traumatic stress other than expensive drugs and talk therapy. Traumatic stress is something that sadly, is getting more and more common. It's effect on the mind and body are atrocious and it can even affect your biology rearranging your brain's wiring. In the past, the common belief was that the only way to attenuate the effects of traumatic stress was going to talk therapy or with expensive prescribed drugs. However, trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk begs to differ.
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"In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them. Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past." - Bessel A. van der Kolk

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Having three decades of experience working with survivors, Bessel van der Kolk has developed an array of techniques and methods to reactivate the areas affected by traumatic stress. The alternative offered by this trauma expert offers patients to face their condition in a new way which is also cheaper than the rest. Bessel van der Kolk stresses that the only alternatives to curing traumatic stress are not drugs and talking therapy, his method is science-backed and has obtained amazing results.

P.S. The Body Keeps the Score is an amazing book that will show you a method to face traumatic stress that is entirely different than anything done before.

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