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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry
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All experience is processed from the bottom up, meaning, to get to the top, “smart” part of our brain, we have to go through the lower, not-so-smart part. This sequential processing means that the most primitive, reactive part of our brain ...more
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Book Club, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Non-fiction, Religion, Romance, Suspense, and Young-adult


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