Reviews Elsewhere – The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in Healing Trauma

Reviews Elsewhere – The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in Healing Trauma

There are certain books that I’ve seen discussed in the survivor community so often that it can be easy to overlook them when talking about recommendations for someone starting out on their healing journey. Bessel van der Kolk’s book about healing from trauma, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in Healing Trauma, falls into that category.

Shared Links (weekly) May 28, 2023

Shared Links (weekly) May 28, 2023

Sharing – Everybody Deserves Empathy

Sharing – Everybody Deserves Empathy

As Scarlett discusses, it’s easy to feel sympathy for the “good” people with mental health issues. That would be the folks who didn’t commit a crime, and who can act mostly in socially acceptable ways. The ones who have much messier situations often escape our empathy, especially if they happen to be homeless, or a member of an underrepresented group.

Mostly though, it’s just luck. Just as I’ve mentioned many times that I was privileged and lucky enough to be able to get help to learn how to deal with my trauma, I was also lucky enough to have only been homeless for a little while, and to have not had a violent or disruptive outburst that led to my being imprisoned or killed.

That luck doesn’t make me more worthy of empathy. It was just luck.

Shared Links (weekly) May 21, 2023

Shared Links (weekly) May 21, 2023

Sharing – The concerning rise of the “Trauma Essay”

Sharing – The concerning rise of the “Trauma Essay”

Jake has concerns, and I think we should be concerned about this. “High school students are being encouraged to write about their struggles, hardships, and traumatic life experiences in order to be admitted into college & university. This therapist has some concerns.” Writing about trauma can be beneficial. I’ve always encouraged people to talk and…

Shared Links (weekly) May 14, 2023

Shared Links (weekly) May 14, 2023