The Body Keeps the Score - Book Summary by a Therapist w/o the Triggering Bits

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  @TherapyinaNutshell · 1 year ago · pinned

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  @MagellanMG · 1 year ago

  I think mental health should be part of our annual health exams and therapy should be prescribed as regularly as medication as part of our health therapy

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  @lucievedomimkestesti · 1 year ago (edited)

  A lot of people underestimate childhood emotional neglect just because it is not physical abuse or tragedy but it is one of the most painful silent abuse where you basically grief what you were supposed to get from caregivers but never got but at the same time you have no idea why you experience so much pain and depression and live in survival modes. Autoimmune disease.There is no realization that we live in post emotional traumatic shockes. Very sneaky and very painful.<br><br>For me the healing was recognizing emotions, soothing nerves system through mantras or touch, reparenting and eventually finally seeing myself and giving myself understanding and validation. Let the emotion fade on their own and not fighting them. To say in other words, to finally speak my truth... In journaling or contemplating. I also wrote about my traumas in third person and rereaded it. I cried out all the emotions since I felt deep love and compassion. Yoga has tough me to stay with emotions. Massages are awesome 👍

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  @LivingMaps-c6r · 3 months ago

  &apos;The brain keeps the score, the body is the score card&apos;. Lisa Feldman Barrett.

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  @FREE_FIRE__DEEWANA888 · 1 year ago

  I used to wake up feeling anxious, already overwhelmed before the day began. Practicing mindfulness showed me how much I was trapped in my thoughts. Shift Your Mind by Alexander Brooks taught me how to break that anxious cycle, helping me regain a sense of control 💙 honestly helped me so much.

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  @helenag.9386 · 1 year ago

  My body failed me 30 year s ago with a terrifying stroke. I was 29. You can&apos;t escape from your own failed body. Now I have ptsd, agoraphobia and severe anxiety. I am working with your techniques and learning to accept anxiety instead of trying protecting myself every moment from an imminent stroke.

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  @kittty55 · 1 year ago

  My aces score is seven. I&apos;m 70 years old this year. I&apos;ve been trying for decades to fix myself, not knowing really how to do it. Always trying the next &quot;self-help book&quot; the next antidepressant… Exercise, eat right, get plenty of sleep remember to hydrate, meditate...I&apos;ve been aware of the mind-body connection for years, but getting others to understand it is not that easy. It&apos;s exhausting getting old and having those health problems you mentioned. It seems like a never-ending battle of Whack-a-mole.

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  @charlottesreadsthings211 · 1 year ago

  I tried reading this book last year to help with my own traumas but i found it difficult to read and just overwhelming. I greatly appreciate you condensing it and explaining, as you always do, in &nbsp;a way i can absorb ❤

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  @orca713 · 1 year ago

  I just read this book in 2025. I had it on my bookshelf for five years. I refused to read it even though somewhere in my subconscious, I knew this book would hold the key to healing. I couldn’t accept that I’d been abused as a child and teen. Slowly I’ve been seeing how the PTSD impacted my relationships with my children and with my 2 exes. I finally began reading this book and I’ve started therapy after denying its existence. My physical symptom is right leg weakness. Have had extensive work up’s for this and there is no evidence of any “physical” problems. Thank you Emma.

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  @fishablish · 1 year ago

  Many people say this book isn&apos;t good cuz it&apos;s too triggering. I disagree. This book opened my eyes on what trauma is and what kind of trauma I had suffered in my life. It was triggering, yes, but it also gave me a rude awakening. My healing journey only began after I read this book and gained some self awareness. After years of working on myself, I no longer live in fight or flight mode. My nervous system is calm and I don&apos;t get triggered by anything and everything like I used to. Life it good. I can&apos;t thank this book enough. It has truly turned my life around.

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  @mlo1290 · 11 months ago

  Me entire childhood, teenhood, and most of my young adult life has been nothing but trauma. Im almost 35 and am just now starting to heal.

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  @malcolmdean2303 · 1 year ago

  I teach Tai Chi and Qigong, and have for 30 years. One of the practices in Tai Chi is called &quot;tuishou&quot;, push-hands. Push-hands can be competitive, but we don&apos;t practice it that way: we practice safe partner training — so it&apos;s much more like learning partner dancing; learning to communicate non-verbally, learning to coordinate movements, etc. But even with clear safeguards, entering into another person&apos;s &quot;private personal space&quot; can (and does) act as a trigger for past traumas. From experience, I estimate at least one out of ten men who enter into push-hands are suffering from some form of PTSD, and perhaps as many as three out of ten women. I&apos;m not a therapist, and our classes are not clinics. But there is no way to escape these issues in real life: they are THERE. So I address this right up front when classes start. I lay out this reality. We establish safety rules. More than anything, we establish a &quot;culture&quot; where anyone can step out for any reason, no questions asked, no shame, no blame. In fact, push-hands can be very effective in helping someone desensitize to physical closeness, and even to simulated conflict. It all rests on they themselves remaining in charge. —— There is another aspect to this worth considering: everyone has a form of PTSD from their original enculturation in youth. Not ABUSE in youth — just ENCULTURATION. We are each trained to give up our natural animal bodies and become useful, tool-using machines. By adulthood, this is so deeply ingrained we are not even aware of it. But the body keeps the score. We are actually all dissociated to some degree or another: physical body stiff and uncoordinated, mental body dull and confused, energy body nowhere to be seen, and spiritual body somewhere over the rainbow. There are many traditional ways to heal this traumatic dissociation. Tai Chi and Qigong do it by slowly bringing the mental and energetic bodies back into balance and coordination. As the rift between mind and energy heals, first the physical body and finally the spiritual body joins back into the whole. It&apos;s a process of reintegration, of returning to nature. It&apos;s non-verbal. It&apos;s very slow. But it&apos;s very, very deep.

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