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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as body)
avg rating 4.34 — 294,274 ratings — published 2014
Autophagy: Simple Techniques to Activate Your Bodies’ Hidden Health Mechanism to Promote Longevity, Optimal Cellular Renewal, Detox, and Strength for a Happy Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 86 times as body)
avg rating 4.79 — 194 ratings — published
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as body)
avg rating 4.31 — 102,013 ratings — published 2019
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as body)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,421 ratings — published 2018
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as body)
avg rating 4.37 — 232,485 ratings — published 2017
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as body)
avg rating 4.14 — 119,612 ratings — published 2020
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as body)
avg rating 4.08 — 56,926 ratings — published 2014
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as body)
avg rating 4.17 — 36,701 ratings — published 2003
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 31 times as body)
avg rating 4.17 — 122,409 ratings — published 2017
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as body)
avg rating 3.71 — 38,091 ratings — published 2000
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as body)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,736 ratings — published 2019
Becoming a Supple Leopard, 1st Edition: The Ultimate Guide To Resolving Pain Preventing Injury And Opti (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as body)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,395 ratings — published 2013
Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as body)
avg rating 4.44 — 10,577 ratings — published 2005
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as body)
avg rating 4.30 — 236,881 ratings — published 2009
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as body)
avg rating 4.12 — 26,928 ratings — published 2019
From Head to Toe (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as body)
avg rating 4.21 — 21,656 ratings — published 1997
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as body)
avg rating 4.41 — 51,095 ratings — published 2015
Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as body)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,498 ratings — published 1995
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as body)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,587 ratings — published 2020
I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as body)
avg rating 4.37 — 61,229 ratings — published 2010
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as body)
avg rating 4.31 — 100,834 ratings — published 2023
The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as body)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,756 ratings — published 2021
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as body)
avg rating 4.28 — 88,841 ratings — published 2015
Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as body)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,917 ratings — published 2011
The Beauty Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as body)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,469 ratings — published 1990
Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as body)
avg rating 4.11 — 420,818 ratings — published 2008
Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as body)
avg rating 4.26 — 99,345 ratings — published 1991
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as body)
avg rating 4.32 — 11,888 ratings — published 2023
Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as body)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,416 ratings — published 1982
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as body)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,984 ratings — published 2013
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as body)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,571 ratings — published 2008
The Definitive Book of Body Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as body)
avg rating 3.95 — 28,731 ratings — published 1981
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as body)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,852 ratings — published 2021
More Than a Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as body)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,283 ratings — published 2020
Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as body)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,153 ratings — published 2001
The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as body)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,283 ratings — published 1985
The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites (Board Book)
by (shelved 14 times as body)
avg rating 4.07 — 35,096 ratings — published 1968
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as body)
avg rating 3.84 — 156,702 ratings — published 2007
Here Are My Hands (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as body)
avg rating 3.87 — 844 ratings — published 1987
Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as body)
avg rating 4.40 — 51,611 ratings — published 2022
Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as body)
avg rating 4.26 — 8,493 ratings — published 2019
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as body)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,046 ratings — published 2008
Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as body)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,114 ratings — published 2014
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as body)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,057 ratings — published 2008
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as body)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,627 ratings — published 1995
Bodies Are Cool (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as body)
avg rating 4.58 — 2,788 ratings — published 2021
What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as body)
avg rating 3.91 — 35,254 ratings — published 2008
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as body)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,472 ratings — published 2018
The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Astonishing Dialogue Taking Place in Our Bodies Impacts Health, Weight, and Mood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as body)
avg rating 3.75 — 9,695 ratings — published 2015
“BEFRIENDING THE BODY
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people live in angry bodies. The bodies of child-abuse victims are tense and defensive until they find a way to relax and feel safe. 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.
In my practice I begin the process by helping my patients to first notice and then describe the feelings in their bodies—not emotions such as anger or anxiety or fear but the physical sensations beneath the emotions: pressure, heat, muscular tension, tingling, caving in, feeling hollow, and so on. I also work on identifying the sensations associated with relaxation or pleasure. I help them become aware of their breath, their gestures and movements.
All too often, however, drugs such as Abilify, Zyprexa, and Seroquel, are prescribed instead of teaching people the skills to deal with such distressing physical reactions. Of course, medications only blunt sensations and do nothing to resolve them or transform them from toxic agents into allies.
The mind needs to be reeducated to feel physical sensations, and the body needs to be helped to tolerate and enjoy the comforts of touch. Individuals who lack emotional awareness are able, with practice, to connect their physical sensations to psychological events. Then they can slowly reconnect with themselves.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people live in angry bodies. The bodies of child-abuse victims are tense and defensive until they find a way to relax and feel safe. 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.
In my practice I begin the process by helping my patients to first notice and then describe the feelings in their bodies—not emotions such as anger or anxiety or fear but the physical sensations beneath the emotions: pressure, heat, muscular tension, tingling, caving in, feeling hollow, and so on. I also work on identifying the sensations associated with relaxation or pleasure. I help them become aware of their breath, their gestures and movements.
All too often, however, drugs such as Abilify, Zyprexa, and Seroquel, are prescribed instead of teaching people the skills to deal with such distressing physical reactions. Of course, medications only blunt sensations and do nothing to resolve them or transform them from toxic agents into allies.
The mind needs to be reeducated to feel physical sensations, and the body needs to be helped to tolerate and enjoy the comforts of touch. Individuals who lack emotional awareness are able, with practice, to connect their physical sensations to psychological events. Then they can slowly reconnect with themselves.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
