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

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

big takeaway: healing from trauma isn’t forgetting or getting over it but integrating trauma into general memory in a way that can be safe and accessible for the brain and body. even trauma this is not being held onto by the conscious mind needs this processing 
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