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How Weight Lifting Helped One Writer Work Through Her PTSD

By Maggie Mertens — 2021

Personal trainer and former competitive weight lifter Laura Khoudari discusses her research and her experience with strength training as an embodied movement practice that has helped her heal from her own trauma and help other trauma survivors.

Read on www.npr.org

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You Can’t Simply Take Trauma Away | Dr. Nadine Burke Harris | Google Zeitgeist

Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.

Nadine Burke Harris

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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist”s Notebook—What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing

In this instant classic of developmental psychology, a renowned psychiatrist examines the effect that trauma can have on a child, reveals how PTSD impacts the developing mind, and outlines the path to recovery.

Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz

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The PTSD Brains of Children and Soldiers - BBC News

Scientists have discovered that the brain structures of traumatised soldiers and children change in the same way. Subscribe to BBC News HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog Check out our website: http://www.bbc.com/news Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bbcworldnews Twitter: http://www.twitter.

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Breaking the Silence about Childhood Trauma — Dani Bostick

Most discussions of PTSD focus on veterans to the extent that many people who suffer from PTSD are often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, especially among our children.

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Karen Treisman: Good Relationships Are the Key to Healing Trauma

Dr. Treisman talks about the importance of forging good relationships and effective society-wide systems when it comes to understanding and healing trauma.

Bessel van der Kolk

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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.

Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey

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The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting

An examination of childhood trauma and its surreptitious, debilitating effects by one of the world’s leading psychoanalysts. Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body.

Alice Miller, Andrew Jenkins (translator)

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It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self

Fascinating patient stories and dynamic exercises help you connect to healing emotions, ease anxiety and depression, and discover your authentic self. Sara suffered a debilitating fear of asserting herself. Spencer experienced crippling social anxiety.

Hilary Jacobs Hendel

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How Generational and Early Life Trauma Shape Our Lives

Along with distorting our fundamental view about the world, and the emergence of traumatic symptoms, unresolved trauma limits our capacity to be fully present; our potential and capacity for real love and intimacy are blocked, as is the ability to feel the intrinsic aliveness, vibrancy, and joy of...

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What Is Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)?

TF-CBT is a structured, short-term, effective treatment for children and adolescents (ages 3-18) who have experienced trauma. As the gold-standard of child trauma treatments, it has been repeatedly shown to successfully resolve emotional and behaviorally difficulties associated with trauma.

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Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD)