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

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Animal Brain and the Rational Brain

The more upset you are, you shut down your rational part of your brain. It wreaks havoc with our animal brains do it. I've almost felt like that is, again, maybe perhaps not drama, but dramatizing,. i don't know. Wees ofa radical transformation. Although we touched on it last time, we talked also about the power of feeling taken care o and feeling believedand it's possible to survive just about anything.

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