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Bessel van der Kolk – How Trauma Lodges in the Body, Revisited

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Yoga, It's Not Just a Cognitive Rite

Psychology training really breeds attention to the body out of people. Traditional therapy was ignoring this sensate dimension of all these experiences, tryingwll reduce it to talk therapy which absolutely didn't fit with the experience. This is not about something you think, or something you figure out. This is about your body having been veset to interpret the world as a terrifying place and yourself as being unsafe.

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