Nothing says healing from trauma like a mosh pit.
There is something incredibly unique about traumatic memories. There seems little we can do to control them. They remain unpredictable and either the memory is sharp, all-encompassing, and repetitive, or, if the traumatic experience was powerful enough, sometimes…
This week our group, Mad Liberation, read and discussed another chapter Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score. Per…
The Cone Heads gathered together this past week to discuss the book, The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk. In reading this text we read through the lens of trauma within the African American community. In chapter four, titled “Running for your life…
The week’s blog is from the book “The Body Keeps the Score” Chapter 12 titled The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering. Historically PTSD was founded during World War 1, but it was not called PTSD it was known as “NYDN” (Not Yet Diagnosed, Nervous). During that time doctors used electroshock…
Why hello there fellow theo bloggers,
Its been a hard week, so we are going to lighten things up by addressing childhood developmental trauma and the institutionalized failure to address it based on larger political and corporate interests. Hooray!
Bessel van der Kolk’s seminal work on trauma, “The Body Keeps the Score”, was the source of our…
Trauma transforms everything