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rileyjune's review
3.0
I love her other books and zines but this one was really disappointing. The whole first part was great, and I was really looking forward to the "use neuroscience to heal" part... but it wasn't there. This zine is 95% an explanation of trauma and PTSD - which is great - but the title suggests that there will be multiple examples of how to heal. The only exercise mentioned is pendulation. That's literally it, and then an ad for her other book, which I am sure is really good... but how is there just one method/example/exercise in a book titled/described in a way that implies it's mostly about how to heal? Another issue I have with it is that pendulation sounds great for a lot of people, but is entirely unhelpful when you have widespread chronic pain. There are no "safe spots" in my body. Any body part I focus on has pain, and during a PTSD flashback, especially if it is related to my chronic illness and experiences living with that, this is only going to be more pronounced. Focusing on my body doesn't help. It makes it worse. I need to ground myself with external things to calm down, and I wish there were examples of that in this zine.
Honestly would give this 4 or 5 stars if the title implied it was a primer on *what* PTSD is. It does a great job of that. It fell short by a lot on the *how to use neuroscience to heal* part.
Honestly would give this 4 or 5 stars if the title implied it was a primer on *what* PTSD is. It does a great job of that. It fell short by a lot on the *how to use neuroscience to heal* part.
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