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Bessel van der Kolk — How Trauma Lodges in the Body

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Resilience to Trauma

The big issue for traumatized people is that they don't own themselves anymore. And so what we have learned is that what makes your resilience to trauma is to own yourself fully. If somebody says hurtful or insulting things, you say, it's a thing that person is saying hurtful and insulting things. But you can separate your sense of yourself from them.

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