Mental
How Your Body Guides Decisions
Bessel van der Kolk’s research reveals that our bodies hold onto the stories of our lives, storing experiences and emotions long after events pass. This means that, in moments of big decisions, it’s not only our minds at work—our bodies react with their own set of insights, often knowing what’s right before we do.
The full breakdown — the context, the shift, and a question to sit with — opens in the Insights app.
The thinker
Trauma & Body Researcher
Bessel van der Kolk is a psychiatrist and author of The Body Keeps the Score, known for his pioneering research on how trauma lives in the body.
Based on The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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