Cecilia’s Reviews > The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma > Status Update
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"Mainstream Western psychiatric and psychological healing traditions have paid scant attention to self-management. In contrast to the Western reliance on drugs and verbal therapies, other traditions from around the world rely on mindfulness, movement, rhythms, and action. Yoga in India, tai chi and qigong in China, and rhythmical drumming throughout Africa are just a few examples. The cultures of Japan and …"
— Jul 20, 2025 04:13AM
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I think my mum might benefit from the islands of safety framework.
— Jul 24, 2025 10:56PM
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“two forms of self-awareness: The first, our autobiographical self, creates connections among experiences and assembles them into a coherent story. This system is rooted in language. Our narratives change with the telling, as our perspective changes and as we incorporate new input. The other system, moment-to-moment self-awareness, is based primarily in physical sensations […]”
— Jul 24, 2025 10:36PM
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“Feeling listened to and understood changes our physiology; being able to articulate a complex feeling, and having our feelings recognized, lights up our limbic brain and creates an "aha moment." In contrast, being met by silence and incomprehension kills the spirit.”
— Jul 24, 2025 10:29PM
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“drugs cannot "cure" trauma; they can only dampen the expressions of a disturbed physiology. And they do not teach the lasting lessons of self-regulation. They can help to control feelings and behavior, but always at a price because they work by blocking the chemical systems that regulate engagement, motivation, pain, and pleasure.”
— Jul 24, 2025 10:12PM
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I can finally pick this up again through my library after the audiobook copy I was listening to on YouTube ended at the 2/3 mark 😅 Please hold.
— Jul 19, 2025 02:11AM
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"Mindfulness increases activation of the medial prefrontal cortex and decreases activation of structures like the amygdala that trigger our emotional responses. This increases our control over the emotional brain."
— Feb 25, 2024 09:15PM
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"… and the Korean peninsula have spawned martial arts, which focus on the cultivation of purposeful movement and being centred in the present, abilities that are damaged in traumatised individuals. Aikido, judo, tae kwon do, kendo, and jujitsu, as well as capoeira from Brazil, are examples. These techniques all involve physical movement, breathing, and meditation. Aside from yoga, few of these popular non-Western healing traditions have been systematically studied for the treatment of PTSD."
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