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

van Der Volk does not shy away from getting immediately into the heavy stuff

"However...the mind may learn to ignore the messages from the emotional brain, the alarm signals don’t stop...Stress hormones keep sending signals to the muscles to tense for action or immobilize in collapse. Medications, drugs, and alcohol can also temporarily dull...unbearable sensations. But the body continues to keep the score."