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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1180 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.34 — 295,283 ratings — published 2014
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 425 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.41 — 112,425 ratings — published 2021
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 391 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.49 — 80,857 ratings — published 2022
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 381 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.40 — 15,954 ratings — published 1992
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,583 ratings — published 1997
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 339 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.54 — 14,497 ratings — published 2013
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 304 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.30 — 37,634 ratings — published 2022
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 273 times as trauma)
avg rating 3.55 — 40,300 ratings — published 2016
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 246 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,550,936 ratings — published 2022
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 224 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.27 — 968,260 ratings — published 2015
In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,425 ratings — published 2010
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.35 — 97,451 ratings — published 2015
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.09 — 21,457 ratings — published 2021
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,057 ratings — published 2017
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.58 — 43,036 ratings — published 2007
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.17 — 36,839 ratings — published 2003
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.42 — 11,819 ratings — published 2018
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,728 ratings — published 2016
Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 143 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,665 ratings — published 2012
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,460,420 ratings — published 2017
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.10 — 439,953 ratings — published 2020
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,496 ratings — published 2000
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.27 — 7,394 ratings — published 2007
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,915,779 ratings — published 2018
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,726,493 ratings — published 2016
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.04 — 31,180 ratings — published 1979
Healing Trauma: Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body (Audio CD)
by (shelved 105 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,092 ratings — published 1999
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,034,439 ratings — published 1999
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.32 — 819 ratings — published 2011
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.05 — 637,537 ratings — published 1999
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.48 — 24,671 ratings — published 2007
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,603 ratings — published 2012
Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 92 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,404 ratings — published 2015
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.14 — 242,082 ratings — published 2016
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.37 — 908,155 ratings — published 1946
Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
by (shelved 87 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.40 — 619 ratings — published 2006
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 86 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.68 — 266,452 ratings — published 2019
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.38 — 166,481 ratings — published 2019
Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.45 — 651,832 ratings — published 2018
Still Beating (ebook)
by (shelved 78 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.19 — 256,428 ratings — published 2020
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
by (shelved 72 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.07 — 629,723 ratings — published 2022
The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,383 ratings — published 2017
Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,107 ratings — published 2015
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as trauma)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,439,715 ratings — published 2014
Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
by (shelved 65 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,141,841 ratings — published 2024
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.38 — 974 ratings — published 2018
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as trauma)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,359,733 ratings — published 2014
Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,301 ratings — published 2011
Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,410 ratings — published 2022
The Deal (Off-Campus, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,136,811 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
“I knew Dad was concerned about my past associations. I was from the Trash Alley. It was my community. I hung out with thugs from the Frog Bottom, the Burns Bottoms, the Red Line, the S-Curve, the Sandfield, the Morning Side, and a bunch of other places that shall remain nameless. I knew all of the “Legends of the Hood”: Sin Man, Swap, Boo Boo, Emp-Man, Cookie Man, Shank, Polar Bear, Bae Willy, Bae Bruh, Skullhead Ned, Pimp, Crunch, and Goat Turd (just to name a few). I thought maybe Dad had summoned me as a “show and tell” for the kids in his neighborhood—the hardliner to scare those wayward suburban brats back into reality.”
― Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
― Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
