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The damage done to one’s conscience or moral compass when that person perpetuates, witnesses, or fails to prevent acts that transgress their own moral and ethical values…
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…
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…
This week in our Liberation Theology Reading Pod, we discussed chapter 12 in Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score. The title of the chapter itself says volumes about the content we discussed: “The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering.” Through the chapter, van der Kolk explains the…
The Cone Heads came together last week to discuss the first few chapters of Van der Kolk’s, The Body Keeps the Score. Our initial conversation focused on the idea of trauma, as described in the introduction of this book which states that trauma is…
Trauma transforms everything