A review by mrshood
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

 Inspiring ideas to combat trauma and fight against the prevailing notion that medication is the main answer; mental illness is not just simply a “chemical imbalance” fixed by the Band-Aid of psychiatric meds. 

Once you get past the valuable parts on brain science and what trauma does to our brain and mind (peppered with at times difficult anecdotes of trauma survivors the author encounters and helps), the main modalities explored for treatment are: Mindfulness, Yoga, EMDR, neurofeedback, and theater! 

I echo what I always hear from readers of this book: “Everyone should read this book”!