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The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score

Focuses on trauma and the body; discusses physical changes in the brain; validates trauma survivors' experiences; controversial among some scholars

Aggregated Pros
  • Focuses on trauma and the body
  • Discusses physical changes in the brain
  • Validates trauma survivors'
  • Experiences

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u/redditor · r/yoga

“The author of The Body Keeps The Score, Bessel van der Kolk, on how psychedelics can help us overcome the trauma stored in our bodies - great ...”

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u/redditor · r/CPTSD

“I'm over half way through "What My Bones Know" - Stephanie Foo, and it is excellent. In it, she refernces "The Body Keeps the Score" and stated ...”

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u/redditor · r/CPTSD

“Just wanted to reshare the link to the book “The Body Keeps the Score”. No scam or bs- just free pdf. Thank you to whomever posted this like ...”

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u/redditor · r/FemaleDatingStrategy

“I've been reading The Body Keeps the Score and learning about how unresolved trauma can teach you that love is literally pain (i.e boys who ...”

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u/redditor · r/therapists

“I read this book, and had to present on it with my fellow licensed LMSWs and LISW-CPs. I have to be honest I was not impressed with the content. But ...”

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u/redditor · r/ADHD

“I feel empowered to live the love I want to see and I think the knowledge I gained from The Body Keeps The Score helped me a ton to get here.”

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u/redditor · r/Healthygamergg

“That being said, I feel like the body keeps the score is a great book on it's own. Dr Gabor Mate is pretty well respected and focused on ...”

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u/redditor · r/books

“So she wrote this book about how to take back your bodily sensations and feel safe again. It has really concrete steps and mindfulness exercises ...”

r/books · Reading “The Body Keeps Score” has brought me so much ... →
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u/redditor · r/therapists

“The Body Keeps the Score is a great intro to trauma and its effects but there are better works, as people are highlighting, including The ...”

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u/redditor · r/CPTSD

“I've never loved and hated a book more than The Body Keeps the Score. My recommendation is to take from it what you need now. I skipped over ...”

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u/redditor · r/AuDHDWomen

“If you've ever felt like you were stuck in a body that's still scared, The Body Keeps the Score might explain things you never had words for.”

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u/redditor · r/CPTSD

“What I consider the worst sin of the Body Keeps the Score book is the way VDK uses worst-case examples to explain something, and then ...”

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u/redditor · r/books

“The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.. This book really gives rise to uncomfortable feelings when discussing such horrific ...”

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u/redditor · r/CPTSD

“I'm 140 pages in and this book is blowing me away. It's definitely uncomfortable to read; it's made me acknowledge some things I've been avoiding for ...”

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u/redditor · r/CPTSDFawn

“Basically, I believed The Body Keeps The Score would be a wonderful tool, and instead I open it and find so very little information of use that ...”

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u/redditor · r/CPTSD

“Takeaways from "The Body Keeps the Score" · A lot of people with PTSD feel like they can't forget their memories because they need to be a " ...”

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u/redditor · r/IfBooksCouldKill

“The Body Keeps the Score is definitely one of the best named books I've ever heard of. What's CINA's problem?”

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