![]() Denial is so common in our culture that it has become a cliché.” ― Peter A. We are routinely pressured into adjusting too quickly in the aftermath of an overwhelming situation. Little time is allotted for the working through of emotional events. ![]() In our culture, there is a lack of tolerance for the emotional vulnerability that traumatized people experience. Unfortunately, this mutual denial can prevent us from healing. “Because the symptoms and emotions associated with trauma can be extreme, most of us (and those close to us) will recoil and attempt to repress these intense reactions. ![]() Waking the Tiger is one of his many books on self-healing. Peter Levine pioneered Somatic Experiencing Therapy, a healing modality for locating and moving trauma out of the body and repatterning the nervous system. It changes not only how we think and what we think about, but also our very capacity to think.” – Bessel Van Der Kolk Trauma results in a fundamental reorganization of the way mind and brain manage perceptions. This imprint has ongoing consequences for how the human organism manages to survive in the present. “We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body. This book is a classic text amongst trauma therapists and counselors. In The Body Keeps Score, Bessel Van Der Kolk writes in-depth of how trauma manifests in the body, and how to heal. Here are 7 Books on Healing Trauma and Recovering from a Painful Past No matter how much will power we have to suppress or deny an event had an impact on us, our bodies tell a different story. No matter how long ago, or where we are in the journey, healing is possible. Healing is not just about acknowledging our pain but in teaching the nervous system how to feel safe again after a traumatic experience occurred. It can cause us to feel untrusting in love, pull away from connection, and sabotage a good thing. In many cases, its expression is catastrophic to our relationships. Someway or another, trauma finds a way to be heard. Disrupted nervous systems, chronic pain, auto-immune disorders.Stress disorders, low cortisol (fatigue/exhaustion).Major relationship struggles, and isolation tendencies.We see trauma living out in the present-day through: We are slowly waking up to the ways in which we invalidate our experiences and brush them off as “fine” when really, they are still alive in our bodies. ![]() Be it ancestral trauma, generational trauma, sexual abuse, abandonment, loss, divorce, betrayal, poverty, and all of the lines you can color in between. It would be safe to say, the majority of us carry trauma in some shape or form. Any event that interrupts the nervous system in such a way that it over-reacts to future perceived threats, is a trauma. Today, we understand that trauma doesn’t look one way and that in a sense, there’s no clear cut definition of what trauma is or isn’t – because trauma is about the perception of an event, not the event itself.Īny event that causes the nervous system to adapt, shut down, freeze, or flee is by definition, a “trauma”. And fortunately for our generation, there are endless resources on how to heal and recover. ![]() Fast forward to the present day, and our understanding of trauma is much more nuanced. When we heard the word “trauma”, most people imagined a serious car accident, or something “catastrophic”. Just ten years ago, trauma was not part of the mainstream conversation. ![]()
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