Bessel van der Kolk — How Trauma Lodges in the Body
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Dark Side of Human Nature
I don't know what to do with those images. And then, and then there's also this impulse that you just have to cut yourself off from that feeling. It's part of the dark side of human nature to want to live on that edge. People go through horrendous stuff everywhere all the time but yet people go on with their lives. I see it all the time. You know, I see very kids who grew up on the terrible circumstances and some of them do terribly. But then, sorry, last week, we had our conference here, our annual conference in Boston. And somebody presented her work on doing meditation in maximum security jails. And you see these really bad ask eyes come
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