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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1113 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.36 — 262,091 ratings — published 2014
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 403 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.42 — 104,564 ratings — published 2021
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.39 — 15,216 ratings — published 1992
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 363 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.50 — 69,907 ratings — published 2022
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 329 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.54 — 13,092 ratings — published 2013
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,893 ratings — published 1997
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 280 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.31 — 32,855 ratings — published 2022
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 263 times as trauma)
avg rating 3.55 — 35,994 ratings — published 2016
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 229 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,382,009 ratings — published 2022
In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,226 ratings — published 2010
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.37 — 83,337 ratings — published 2015
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.39 — 11,342 ratings — published 2017
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.29 — 880,947 ratings — published 2015
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.58 — 40,018 ratings — published 2007
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,386 ratings — published 2021
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,511 ratings — published 2003
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.43 — 11,048 ratings — published 2018
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,514 ratings — published 2016
Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 137 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,572 ratings — published 2012
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,387,423 ratings — published 2017
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,402 ratings — published 2000
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,957 ratings — published 2007
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.10 — 404,994 ratings — published 2020
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,460,976 ratings — published 2016
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,797,013 ratings — published 2018
Healing Trauma: Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body (Audio CD)
by (shelved 106 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,954 ratings — published 1999
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,789 ratings — published 1979
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.05 — 625,148 ratings — published 1999
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.33 — 769 ratings — published 2011
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.48 — 22,762 ratings — published 2007
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,963,000 ratings — published 1999
Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 90 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,332 ratings — published 2015
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,768 ratings — published 2012
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.14 — 216,062 ratings — published 2016
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.40 — 155,320 ratings — published 2019
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.37 — 844,443 ratings — published 1946
Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
by (shelved 84 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.40 — 596 ratings — published 2006
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 83 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.69 — 247,434 ratings — published 2019
Still Beating (ebook)
by (shelved 72 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.20 — 214,967 ratings — published 2020
The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,292 ratings — published 2017
Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,962 ratings — published 2015
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.39 — 932 ratings — published 2018
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
by (shelved 65 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.08 — 557,788 ratings — published 2022
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as trauma)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,342,289 ratings — published 2014
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,240,576 ratings — published 2014
Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,269 ratings — published 2011
Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
by (shelved 59 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.36 — 989,042 ratings — published 2024
Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.45 — 483,357 ratings — published 2018
The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.25 — 464 ratings — published 2019
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 57 times as trauma)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,513 ratings — published 2017
“BEFRIENDING THE BODY
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people live in angry bodies. The bodies of child-abuse victims are tense and defensive until they find a way to relax and feel safe. In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them. Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past.
In my practice I begin the process by helping my patients to first notice and then describe the feelings in their bodies—not emotions such as anger or anxiety or fear but the physical sensations beneath the emotions: pressure, heat, muscular tension, tingling, caving in, feeling hollow, and so on. I also work on identifying the sensations associated with relaxation or pleasure. I help them become aware of their breath, their gestures and movements.
All too often, however, drugs such as Abilify, Zyprexa, and Seroquel, are prescribed instead of teaching people the skills to deal with such distressing physical reactions. Of course, medications only blunt sensations and do nothing to resolve them or transform them from toxic agents into allies.
The mind needs to be reeducated to feel physical sensations, and the body needs to be helped to tolerate and enjoy the comforts of touch. Individuals who lack emotional awareness are able, with practice, to connect their physical sensations to psychological events. Then they can slowly reconnect with themselves.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people live in angry bodies. The bodies of child-abuse victims are tense and defensive until they find a way to relax and feel safe. In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them. Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past.
In my practice I begin the process by helping my patients to first notice and then describe the feelings in their bodies—not emotions such as anger or anxiety or fear but the physical sensations beneath the emotions: pressure, heat, muscular tension, tingling, caving in, feeling hollow, and so on. I also work on identifying the sensations associated with relaxation or pleasure. I help them become aware of their breath, their gestures and movements.
All too often, however, drugs such as Abilify, Zyprexa, and Seroquel, are prescribed instead of teaching people the skills to deal with such distressing physical reactions. Of course, medications only blunt sensations and do nothing to resolve them or transform them from toxic agents into allies.
The mind needs to be reeducated to feel physical sensations, and the body needs to be helped to tolerate and enjoy the comforts of touch. Individuals who lack emotional awareness are able, with practice, to connect their physical sensations to psychological events. Then they can slowly reconnect with themselves.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
