The Body Keeps the Score Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

There's a brilliant book on the body keeps the score and he talks about how it lives in your body basically and you and he worked with vets and you know it's crazy like he in this book I've been rereading it again and he's talking about how when he was writing to get some from the VA to get a grant to study PTSD they were like no we don't even really think it.

There's a brilliant book on the body keeps the score and he talks about how it lives in your body basically.

He worked with vets and you know it's crazy like he in this book I've been rereading it again and he's talking about how when he was writing to get some from the VA to get a grant to study PTSD they were like no we don't even really think it.

Paul defined trauma as some event that is aversive, that changes the way that our nervous system works such that we function less well in the future.

And then I got you know once a week therapy amazing people.

I didn't want to put language to it I couldn't I just didn't feel like it like I just felt like gutting through it.

Dr. Paul Conti who is some of you know is a medical doctor and psychiatrist he's been a guest on this podcast first to talk about trauma he wrote an excellent book about trauma I provide a link to that book in the show no captions by the way and he and I did four episodes of the human lab podcast a so called guest series specifically aimed at mental health what it is how to build mental health specific protocols and Dr. Paul Conti is really a great person to talk about.

I highly recommend the book Trauma by Dr. Paul Conti.

He's an MD, medical doctor, psychiatrist.

He was featured as a guest on this podcast. He's been on a number of other prominent podcasts. We will provide a link in our show note captions to the book Trauma.

I consider that book to be the best book in terms of describing what trauma is and isn't and how it leads to PTSD.

It also describes some of Dr. Paul Conti's own experiences with trauma and his own treatment of trauma in his patient population, which is quite wide-ranging: men, women, young people, older people, and a variety of traumatic experiences.

And here again I'm paraphrasing but Dr. Conti describes trauma something that fundamentally changes the way that our brain and body function in a way that makes other aspects of living more challenging again an event either emotional or physical or both that fundamentally changes the way that our brain and our body as our nervous system and other organs function in a way that prevents us from in enjoying daily activities and that could even be ongoing.

I personally think it's the best book on trauma and tools for alleviating traumas incredibly thorough easy to read and well informed.

the quite pioneering, although I would say somewhat outofdate book, The Body Keeps the Score, I think it was an important book. Best title of any book you could imagine in the psychology space because it's so catchy. And I want to give proper respect to Bessel for doing that book.

That whole thing of like the body, you know, the book, The Body Keeps the Score where it's like a whole different situation is happening physically.

If you look at Judith Sarman's work on her most recent book on trauma and healing, she really talks about how injustice is such an impediment to healing from trauma.

He says we're not teaching people how to get rid of their anxiety. I call it alarm. We're not teaching how to get rid of the alarm. What we're doing is we're teaching you how to acclimatize to it so that when you feel that discomfort, you don't compulsively and relentlessly go into your head for a solution that you'll never find there.

If you talk to people like Bessel van der Kolk, who wrote this great book called The Body Keeps the Score, I think what Bessel would suggest is that there's something else that's probably happened in your life.

the other book is The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk it's been a bestseller for a very long time for a reason again it shows us unequivocally trauma and emotions again don't just live in the head

The Body Keeps a Score, which is a book about trauma from 2014, was back up near the top of the New York Times list. It's number one as I write this, the book's 147th week on the paperback nonfiction list.

The Body Keeps a Score, it is a searing read about the way trauma disconnects our minds and our bodies. It's pretty clearly written with a professional audience in mind.

The Body Keeps a Score is one of those books people have told me to read for a long time, but I thought I knew what it was about.

So The Body Keeps Score has, I mean, as a book, it's a phenomenon, as a social meme, it's a phenomenon.

It was astonishing to me reading some of the stories in the book.

The Body Keeps a Score, which is a book about trauma from 2014, was back up near the top of the New York Times list. It's number one as I write this, the book's 147th week on the paperback nonfiction list.

The Body Keeps a Score, it is a searing read about the way trauma disconnects our minds and our bodies. It's pretty clearly written with a professional audience in mind.

The Body Keeps Score has, I mean, as a book, it's a phenomenon, as a social meme, it's a phenomenon.

But then when I read it, what really struck me about it is how much of the book is about not just how the body keeps a score, but how and why the mind hides the score.

The Body Keeps a Score, which is a book about trauma from 2014, was back up near the top of the New York Times list. It's number one as I write this, the book's 147th week on the paperback nonfiction list.

The Body Keeps a Score, it is a searing read about the way trauma disconnects our minds and our bodies. It's pretty clearly written with a professional audience in mind.

The Body Keeps a Score is one of those books people have told me to read for a long time, but I thought I knew what it was about.

The Body Keeps Score has, I mean, as a book, it's a phenomenon, as a social meme, it's a phenomenon.

Vessel van der Kolk, your book is The Body Keeps the Score. It's remarkable.

The Body Keeps a Score, which is a book about trauma from 2014, was back up near the top of the New York Times list. It's number one as I write this, the book's 147th week on the paperback nonfiction list.

The Body Keeps a Score, it is a searing read about the way trauma disconnects our minds and our bodies. It's pretty clearly written with a professional audience in mind.

The Body Keeps a Score is one of those books people have told me to read for a long time, but I thought I knew what it was about. I'd heard it discussed so many times and I'd read it written about.

So The Body Keeps Score has, I mean, as a book, it's a phenomenon, as a social meme, it's a phenomenon.

This was a real epiphany for me in reading your book because you read about cases like this, you read about false memories...

The Body Keeps a Score, which is a book about trauma from 2014, was back up near the top of the New York Times list. It's number one as I write this, the book's 147th week on the paperback nonfiction list.

The Body Keeps a Score, it is a searing read about the way trauma disconnects our minds and our bodies.

The Body Keeps a Score is one of those books people have told me to read for a long time, but I hadn't read it.

The Body Keeps Score has, I mean, as a book, it's a phenomenon... I felt like I knew what it said, even though I hadn't read it until recently.

But then when I read it, what really struck me about it is how much of the book is about not just how the body keeps a score, but how and why the mind hides the score.

Because there's a book called The Body Keeps the Score, which is like the number one book about like trauma. And they talk about how trauma was first with like war veterans and like what they went through there.

They talk about how trauma was first with war veterans and how it shows up later, like a car sitting in a grocery store parking lot that the brain tells you has an explosive in it.

Because there's a book, there's a book called The Body Keeps the Score, which is, like, the number one book about, like, trauma. And they talk about how trauma was first with, like, war veterans and, like, what they went through there. And, like, they'll come home and they'll see, like, a car sitting by itself in a grocery store parking lot. But they're, and their body and their brain will tell them, like, that car has an explosive in it when it's just, like, a car sitting at Publix or something.

And so I think, like, in what, like, I can notice him, like, trying to make things happen, like, in the game. Like, he's trying to pull the trigger, but it's almost like his,

There's a book "The Body Keeps the Score" by everyone talks about a Besser vanil cock or whatever his name is He was dude. This guy was a goat psychologist and they fuck they pulled some bullshit Like me to ish kind of stuff on him where it was like he was inappropriate this book for anyone who like likes this kind of stuff, it's like the Like in psychology, there's like a trauma focused field and it's like I think it's one of the most important things anyone can like learn about at all who like Somewhat feels like their mind might be somewhat out of sorts, which is probably pretty much everybody. Yeah, dude

It's crazy the stuff they talk about how you get just zapped as a kid not realizing it You build your whole personality on these like marbles and they just get like irritated throughout the day. You're like what what? Totally it's fucked up. Yeah, it's fucked up

I remember learning once that the human brain and the human body aren't necessarily always on the same page. If you're running from danger, if there's a threat and you run from the danger, even when the danger subsides, your body's still in the danger. And I think they talk about something similar in the book, The Body Keeps the Score.

The book, The Body Keeps the Score was one of the first offerings of this idea, this concept that our body is remembering.

A psychiatrist and best-selling author Bessel van der Kolk writes in The Body Keeps the Score, by the way it's a phenomenal book you have to check it out, traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies.

The body keeps the score. This book absolutely broke the internet and there's so much to take away from today.

It is interesting indeed that it's so obvious and I actually have gotten, my bookstores sold 5 million copies. I've hardly had any blowback of people who say that I'm getting it wrong. I mean, it's really obvious but we come from a world of medicine where we try to define things very carefully.

I'm just writing a new book, finished last chapter for a new book and I started with a quote from Marcel Proust, in order to change, you need to see the world with new eyes.

So at the end, if you really want to recover from trauma, you need to, we need to help people to change their perceptions of the world. We're not gonna change the world out there, but we're going to change what they see and how they experience themselves and the people around them.

You mentioned that you tried every modality that you put in The Body Keeps the Score. Which is the one that you have found to be either most impactful or the one that you keep coming back to most regularly?

I think Bessel van der Kolk's really great book, the title I think probably did a lot of disservice and confused a lot of people who never read it and made assumptions about what was in the book.

I talk about implicit memory. I talk about sensations. Think the body keeps the score.

the work of Bessel van der Kalk from the body keeps the score.

as Bessel van der Kolk talks about in The Body Keeps the Score.

there's a book called the body keeps score and Carolyn Mase it was sort of a mystic said your biography becomes your biology it works the other way too from up down right and it's a biography if you're eating crap and you're nutritionally deficient and you have all these health issues and mercury poisoning that can affect your mental health too in your story but we know really clearly that your trauma is influencing your biology

There's this book called The Body Keeps the Score but the title is just the thing that I've actually gained the most from it just says that when there's things going on in our psychology and our mind the body will show it yeah man.

I read this book called the body holds the score then if you've ever heard of it and one of the most fascinating things about it is it talks about how acting and moving the body and like yoga have been proven to be the best forms of uh antidepressant like without you know taking SSRIs or anything they've been proven to and I remember thinking acting is a great antidepressant how is that possible but what you're saying now rings it talks

one really wonderful book is the body keeps score about trauma

I do mention it in Lies My Therapist Told Me, because Van Der Kolk has become like this popculture expert, quoteunquote expert, in the way trauma affects a person... The whole thesis is your body actually keeps the score of traumatic events in your life.

Who wrote The Body Keeps the Score? Bessel van der Kolk.

Who wrote The Body Keeps the Score? Or that's Bessel van der Kolk.

I think that we talk about Body Keeps the Score and him observing veterans deal with these pretty trivial challenges and have these very outsized reactions.

you read the body keeps the score.

We've seen a lot of people having trauma and we're talking about the book The Body Keeps the Score. Oh, I love it. There's so much value in talking about that.

I love the book The Body Keeps the Score because it really explains how trauma is stored in the body.

She also happened to be the doctor who evaluated my sister's case. So lots of interesting crossover there. ... He also mentioned The Body Keeps the Score.

I'll also throw in their body keeps the score, which was the favorite book of mine.

Maybe the most impactful, if you read Body Keeps the Score, it's like that might be the best solution to trauma.

There's a lot on it in a book I read - The Body Keeps' Score.

The one thing they do say about that in all of these books body keeps the score

There's a great book The Body Keeps the Score maybe you've heard about that book but this doctor's work starts because he's working when he's young in the VA hospital and he's watching these vets come in and they're getting confronted with something that's just a little difficult like it's paperwork and he's watching people have this insane flight or fight reaction full 180 heartbeat per minute unraveling.

there's a great book the body keeps the score maybe you've heard about that book but this doctor's work starts because he's working when he's young in the VA hospital and he's watching these vets come in and they're getting confronted with something that's just a little difficult like it's paperwork and he's watching people have this insane fightorflight reaction full 180 heartbeat per minute unraveling

And as my colleague Bessel van der Kolk has so beautifully stated, when it comes to trauma, the body keeps the score.

Have you read that book The Body Keeps the Score?

I haven't read it but it's fucking crazy.

it's a useful framework to increase self exploration and understanding of other people. Bestseller vendor coat is the author of a book called the body keeps the score and yes he is very much helped improve public understanding of trauma.

The Body Keeps the Score. It's an immensely popular book.

I'm now reading this great book called The Body Keeps the Score.