🤕➡️👁️➕ Your reality narrows after trauma — here’s how to expand it | Bessel van der Kolk
🤖 AI Summary
💔 Trauma is experienced in the present moment, manifesting as 😭 heartbreaking sensations, even though the event itself is over [00:12].
🧠 The brain’s survival-oriented core part causes 🤖 automatic reactions, making it impossible to simply “🗣️ talk yourself out” of these feelings [00:30].
🥺 Traumatized individuals often live by their emotions and sensations, as their 🧠 rational brain may not modify these responses [01:34:00].
🧠 The frontal lobe can go 😴 offline, impairing the ability to distinguish past from present [01:51:00].
👁️ Trauma narrows perception, leading individuals to perceive the world as ⚠️ dangerous and to behave in 🙇 submissive, 😠 controlling, or 😡 vengeful ways [02:21:00].
✨ It’s crucial to provide people with 🆕 new and different 🖐️ visceral experiences [00:36].
🥊 Boxing lessons can provide a 🖐️ visceral experience of self-defense and 💪 empowerment [03:17:00].
🎭 Psychodrama allows individuals to re-enact past scenarios with a desired outcome [04:13:00].
🍄 Psychedelics can alter brain organization, helping individuals recognize that their 😢 intense feelings are related to past memories [05:20:00].
🌟 Successful trauma processing expands an individual’s perception [06:21:00].
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🤕 Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide to Recovering From Childhood Trauma by Pete Walker - Focuses on complex PTSD and offers practical strategies for healing.
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⚕️ Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman - A foundational text on understanding and recovering from trauma.