Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk dismantles the myth that trauma is merely bad memory: it is a biological reorganization that lives in Broca's area shutdown, in the amygdala's perpetual alarm, in every cell. From Vietnam veteran Tom, who refused medication to remain a "living memorial" to fallen comrades, to nurse Marilyn whose body attacked her tennis partner Michael decades after childhood abuse, the evidence is visceral. The Adverse Childhood Experiences study of seventeen thousand people proved that early trauma predicts heart disease, cancer, and addiction. Healing demands more than talk.

You'll learn:

- Why "speechless terror" defeats traditional talk therapy

- How EMDR and neurofeedback rewire the traumatized brain

- What the Adverse Childhood Experiences study revealed about lifelong health