Trauma - Compassion

The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk)

Introduction For decades, mainstream psychiatry treated trauma as a purely psychological phenomenon, a cognitive "memory" problem that could simply be talked through or medicated away. Bessel van der Kolk's landmark work overturned that assumption by proving that trauma is an intense physiological reality, one that literally rearranges the brain's wiring and the body's nervous system. This…

In an Unspoken Voice (Peter A. Levine)

Blog29 de May de 202637Views 0Likes 0Comments

Introduction We tend to believe that healing begins with understanding: that if we articulate what happened to us clearly enough, the pain will eventually resolve. Peter A. Levine's In an Unspoken Voice challenges this assumption at its root. The body, Levine argues, holds the record of trauma in a language that words alone cannot reach. For clients in…

Hold On to Your Kids (Gordon Neufeld & Gabor Maté)

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Introduction Something has quietly shifted in the way children orient themselves in the world. In a modern society that has grown increasingly stressed, fragmented, and emotionally disconnected, children are turning to their peers for the guidance, values, and emotional security that once came from adults. Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté call this "peer orientation," and their…

Healing Developmental Trauma (Laurence Heller & Aline LaPierre)

Blog14 de May de 202657Views 0Likes 0Comments

Introduction There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes not from what happened to us, but from the effort of being someone other than ourselves. Developmental trauma and the chronic absence of secure attachment quietly erode our capacity to feel fully alive and authentic, and the strategies we developed to manage that absence…