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

I would love an abridged version without the detailed accounts of traumatic events experienced by the clinical subjects. Hearing their tails of trauma is actually pretty triggering, without providing the reader tools up front to cope with it.

This concept hit me like a Mack truck - when we deaden feelings of trauma, we also deaden the brain areas that make us feel fully alive, and the same brain areas that provide the foundations of self-awareness.

I'm giving this a chance, but the first several pages of thus book feel very much like "old white guy regales you with tales of his own excellence". I'm not finding tales of Vietnam war veterans in the VA very relatable to my female, civilian, experience in the 2020's.