Psychological
What if your body remembers what your mind forgot?
After a traumatic experience, the rational brain can understand what happened. You can explain it. Analyze it. But your body might still act like it's stuck in that moment. A racing heart. Tight shoulders. A stomach that clenches for no obvious reason.
The body keeps the score.— Bessel van der Kolk
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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 Bessel van der Kolk — The Body Keeps the Score, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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