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Daniel Siegel, Bessel van der Kolk, Joseph LeDoux, Antonio Damasio
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How Deep is the Wound sets out to describe emotional pain and trauma. It separates the two and explains the differences. This is important because they are treated differently and have different p" Read more of this review » |
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| I enjoyed this book a lot. Dee Dee wrote it with genuine compassion and wisdom, sharing her personal healing journey and extensive clinical experience. She makes an important topic accessible, offering insights about psychedelics and sexual healing t ...more | |
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| I really enjoyed reading this book even though I'm past my childbearing years. As a therapist, it's super important for me to understand what mothers experience today, especially given the high rates of postpartum depression we're seeing. This book i ...more | |
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“The most damaging wounds are often the ones we’re told don’t count.”
― How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain
― How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain
“Pain yells when we stop hearing what it’s trying to say.”
― How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain
― How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain
“The pain that we cannot control may be the one that could teach us the strength we never knew we had.”
― How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain
― How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain
“Trauma can be defined in terms of the relationship you establish with an event.
Becoming traumatized depends on how your system responds to the way you perceive, interpret, and interact with the events you experience as overwhelming/shocking/threatening.
Trauma is not the event itself!”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
Becoming traumatized depends on how your system responds to the way you perceive, interpret, and interact with the events you experience as overwhelming/shocking/threatening.
Trauma is not the event itself!”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
“Trauma as causal is what puts us at risk, trauma as the effect of that experience is what makes us unwell. Trauma as phenomena is every mental occurrence in between.”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
“Trauma is not just a term, it's a complex phenomenon with multiple components, from cause to effect.”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
“Most definitions we talk about in psychology are speculations, theories, and propositions. Definitions come and go. Terms change meaning. Statements and theories are discredited. Popular conversations make up words and adopt them as truths. Being open to this fact is the way keep learning.”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
“The mind and the brain are part of the system that governs our mental health and we are just starting to understand that the mind and brain are not the same.”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
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