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

Yes, you need to detect whether somebody is getting upset with you, but if your amygdala goes into overdrive, you may become chronically scared that people hate you, or you may feel like they are out to get you.

It’s hard enough to face the suffering that has been inflicted by others, but deep down many traumatized people are even more haunted by the shame they feel about what they themselves did or did not do under the circumstances.

how do you learn to trust yourself or anyone else again? Or, conversely, how can you surrender to an intimate relationship after you have been brutally violated?

It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember.

“The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.”

“What can not be spoken to the [m]other cannot be told to the self.”

Every life is a piece of art, put together with all means available.”

What you are is an expression of History.

What you are is an expression of History.

After trauma the world becomes sharply divided between those who know and those who don’t