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

The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering… “Our bodies are the texts that carry the memories and therefore remembering is no less than reincarnation.” — Katie Cannon

“If the problem with PTSD is dissociation, the goal of treatment would be association: integrating the cut-off elements of the trauma into the ongoing narrative of life, so that the brain can recognize that ‘that was then, and this is now.’”

“Economists have calculated that every dollar invested in high quality home visitation, day care, and preschool programs results in seven dollars of savings on welfare payments, health-care costs, substance abuse treatment, and incarceration, plus higher tax revenues due to better paying jobs.”

“Social support is a biological necessity, not an option, and this reality should be the backbone of all prevention and treatment.”

“Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe in their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort… They learn to hide from their selves.”

“Being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still going on— unchanged and immutable— as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past.”

“How do horrific experiences cause people to become hopelessly stuck in the past? What happens in people’s minds and brains that keeps them frozen, trapped in a place they desperately wish to escape?”

“Feeling out of control, survivors of trauma often begin to fear that they are damaged to the core and beyond redemption.” Woah. Yeah. This is only the second page.