The Body Keeps the Score: Complete Healing Guide | Transform Your Trauma
🧠 The Body Keeps the Score
Your Complete Guide to Understanding and Healing Trauma
Trauma isn't just in your head - it lives in your body, reshaping your nervous system, altering your brain chemistry, and affecting every aspect of your life. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk's groundbreaking research reveals how trauma literally changes us from the inside out.
But here's the revolutionary truth: your body's capacity for healing is just as powerful as its memory of harm. Every technique in this guide is based on cutting-edge neuroscience and decades of clinical research.
Your body remembers everything - but it can also learn to feel safe again.
🎯 Understanding Trauma's Impact on Your Body
Single-incident trauma
ACUTE TRAUMA
What it is: One-time overwhelming events (accidents, natural disasters, single assault)
Body symptoms: Hypervigilance, startle response, flashbacks
"The body keeps the score: If the memory of trauma is encoded in the viscera, in heartbreaking and gut-wrenching emotions, then healing must involve the body too."
🔬 How Trauma Rewires Your Brain
The Triune Brain Under Threat
Reptilian Brain (Brainstem): Controls survival functions. Trauma keeps it in constant alarm mode, causing hypervigilance, sleep disruption, and digestive issues.
Mammalian Brain (Limbic System): Governs emotions and memory. Trauma dysregulates this system, leading to emotional overwhelm, memory fragmentation, and relationship difficulties.
Neocortex (Rational Brain): Handles thinking and language. Trauma can "hijack" this system, making it hard to think clearly or put experiences into words.
When trauma strikes, your rational brain goes offline and your survival brain takes over.
🏥 The Body's Trauma Symptoms
Physical Manifestations of Stored Trauma
Nervous System Dysregulation
Chronic fight/flight/freeze states
Symptoms: Racing heart, shallow breathing, muscle tension
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