The body keeps the score: if the memory of trauma is encoded in the viscera, in heartbreaking and gut-wrenching emotions, in autoimmune disorders and skeletal/muscular problems, it must be addressed in the body.
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Bessel van der Kolk
Dutch-born psychiatrist and trauma researcher. Author of The Body Keeps the Score (2014) and founder of the Trauma Research Foundation.
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Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health.
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies.