Awakening Aphrodite 74. Befriending Your Body: Dealing With And Healing Trauma, Painful Emotions And Mental Health Issues With “The Body Keeps The Score” By Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk
Welcome back to Awakening Aphrodite! I've been wanting to dedicate an entire episode on healing and overcoming trauma for a long time. This was a huge challenge for me due to my own person experiences. If this episode helps you change a single aspect of how you navigate your own healing journey I would love to hear about it. Together, we will cover key chapters from the book "The Body keeps The Score" by Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk.
Timestamps:
00:00 Importance Of Holistic Medicine In Our Time
1:28 Join Amy’s Email List!
03:29 “The Body Keeps The Score” By Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk
07:30 Understanding ourselves through trauma
10:00 Using pain as a means of change
12:45 Thoughts as ingredients for being
14:12 Episode 72 with Dr. Weyland Meyers
14:34 Discovering the trauma in my body
16:24 How shame affects our health and addictions
18:40 “Freezing” in traumatic situations
18:56 The five parts of “The Body Keeps The Score”
21:45 The pervasiveness of trauma in our society
22:36 Trauma is more than an event
28:31 The Biological and Physiological Memory of Trauma
30:35 Power of Imagination When Healing
31:42 The Origins of PTSD
34:33 PTSD and Low Cortisol
37:03 Trauma Survivors and Prescription Medication
38:51 The Requirement for Mental Health
40:31 The Brain as a Cultural Organ
42:09 Attachment and Trauma
45:00 Coping with Food & Overeating
48:01 Feelings Resulting From Trauma
49:56 Healing and Treatment
1:01:00 Closing Summary
Other episodes mentioned:
72. Connecting at the Heart-Level, Fostering Better Relationships, Loving With Detachment and Healing Addictions with Nonviolent Communication and Wayland Myers, PhD
45. Creating Happy Brain Chemicals and Healthy Habits By Boosting Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels with Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD
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