The Body Keeps Score

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By Bessel van der Kolk, MD

The essential guide to understanding how trauma reshapes the body and brain.

The Body Keeps the Score is widely considered one of the most important books on trauma and healing ever written. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a world-leading expert, explains that emotional pain doesn’t only stay in the mind, it gets stored physically inside the body. This book explores how PTSD, childhood trauma, and long-term stress actually change the wiring of the brain, affecting our capacity for pleasure, engagement, and trust.

More importantly, it shows that because trauma changes the body, healing must involve the body too. It is a deeply hopeful book that outlines how we can reclaim our lives through a variety of innovative and proven approaches.

The Path to Recovery: What Awaits You Inside

Dr. van der Kolk shares decades of research and clinical experience to help you understand the science of healing:

• The Physiology of Trauma: Discover how traumatic experiences can keep the body in a state of “high alert” long after the danger has passed.
• Beyond Talk Therapy: Learn why traditional talk therapy is often not enough and how body-based practices like yoga, EMDR, and neurofeedback can help “reset” the nervous system.
• The Power of Mindfulness: Techniques to help you inhabit your body safely again, moving from a state of numbness to a state of presence.
• Creating Emotional Safety: Insights into how healthy relationships and community support are vital for long-term recovery and resilience.

What You Will Gain from This Landmark Book

• Deep Understanding of Trauma: A clear, scientific explanation of why you feel the way you do and how your past is affecting your present.
• Holistic Healing Approaches: A wide range of options for recovery that address the mind, brain, and body as a single system.
• Validation and Compassion: The realization that your symptoms are natural responses to unnatural events, helping to reduce shame and self-blame.
• A Map to Resilience: The knowledge and tools needed to begin the journey of self-regulation and emotional freedom.
• Product Specifications
• Best For: Anyone interested in trauma healing, mental health professionals, and those seeking to understand the mind-body connection.
• Category: Psychology / Trauma / Self-Help.
• Vibe: Authoritative, compassionate, and revolutionary.

“Trauma is not just an event that happened sometime in the past, it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body.”

Reclaim your sense of self. Add The Body Keeps the Score to your cart and begin your journey toward real healing.