Scott West’s Reviews > The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma > Status Update

I need to try EMDR with my therapist as it sounds interesting putting your experiences into the dream state to come up with imaginary fixes and more easily associate them in your body with the past. Important for moving forward and realising the danger has passed.

I wish this book had easy trauma fixes, though excellent useful tips. Revisiting the past and re-contextualising. Journaling to downgrade the emotional harm certainly seems to have merit. Eastern exercises have great healing power by connecting body and mind. Need to try Thai chi or Yoga. Childhood certainly has the capacity to easily scar due to dependency and helplessness as elaborated. Helpful read for me.

Love the informative information on dissociation. We struggle to feel truly present and relive the past not from our own perspective. Therefore we relive the past as it happened in fragments that are most graphic struggling to make sense of the real and present in our bodies. Important to learn the danger has passed and teach our bodies through helpful exercises. Helping reframe my own experiences.

Turning into one of my favourite books so far. Insightful information on trauma initially. Love the dissection of how our relationship with primary care givers influences our behaviour and propensity to engage in self sabotaging. Empathy in dissecting how such behaviour can be learnt from a young age focusing on the causes and the subsequent pernicious influence. Sets up for an enticing how do we heal climax.