Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing
Tara Brach
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PTSD
The parts of our brain that have evolved to monitor for danger are over activated chronically. So there's this regular secretion of cortisol, which is toxic for neurons. And so it's easy for executive function to get cut off for the limbic fear to take over. When we're chronically stressed and we don't have that kind of integration,. we get a message of danger and we flip our lid. There's a disconnection from empathy, compassion, perspective. We lose access to flexibility to creativity. The hijack by the survival brain. We're essentially unsafe.
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