By Concepción de León — 2018
“The Body Keeps the Score” hinges on the idea that trauma is stored in the body and that, for therapy to be effective, it needs to take the physiological changes that occur into account.
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As long as you can prove that it works, it doesn’t matter what you call it.
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Trauma gets locked in the nervous system of the body, and it takes specific types of guidance to unravel and clear the mental, emotional, and physical effects.
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