+1 for The Body Keeps the Score. One of the most useful books on overcoming trauma I've ever read. The idea of Developmental Trauma Disorder is so much more constructive than other models.

So many of the things we call "diseases" can be traced to trauma. "Mental injury" may be a more useful construct than "mental illness". In the same way that your body can heal from a femur fracture, your psyche can heal from a trauma-induced mind fracture.

Any modalities in particular you found beneficial from The Body Keeps the Score?

More than any specific modality, what I got from the book was confirmation that the way to heal developmental trauma is to create a safe space and then to engage with it. As opposed to seek to hide it or cover it up pharmaceutically as recommended by Big Pharma.

Practices I have found to be useful in dealing with childhood physical abuse and chronic emotional abuse:

- sauna/cold plunge (incredibly useful way to trigger fight or flight and learn to deal with conditioned fear response)

- pushups, pullups, yoga

- breath awareness and compassion meditations

- metric shit-tons of journaling

- reading stories of trauma survivors

- psychoanalysis, up to a point

- talking to friends (the right ones)

Thanks! I’ve been doing yoga, EMDR, and Somatic Experience and have found all helpful in different ways.

As someone who's currently going through a wave serious depression, I'm curious about this book. Thanks for sharing.

Hey, I don't know you and you don't know me, but I'm here if you'd like to chat. Hit me up.

Likewise. I'm devastated about the news, and it's brought back my demons to the fore.

I'm definitely going to check this book out. Thanks for the recommendation.

I remember finding this talk quite insightful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc