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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.

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I Tried This Trippy Healing Modality for Mental Clarity—And Still Can’t Believe How It Made Me Feel

A few years ago, a friend told me about an underground breathwork circle she’d attended in Venice Beach—back when breathwork outside of yoga studios was still hush-hush. It was totally trippy and cathartic she told me. People were convulsing, shouting, sobbing uncontrollably.

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Erin Magner
2017
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Turning Trauma into Story: The Benefits of Journaling

Why those who write have lower stress, improved health.

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Jordan Gaines Lewis
2012
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EMDR Therapy for Anxiety, Panic, PTSD and Trauma

In 1987 psychologist Francine Shapiro developed a new type of psychotherapy known as EMDR, which stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. EMDR therapy has become a more common treatment in recent years as a treatment option for people suffering from anxiety, panic, PTSD, or trauma.

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John Riddle
2020
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How the Body Keeps the Score: An Interview with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

In his book “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma,” van der Kolk reveals how trauma rearranges the brain’s wiring, including areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust.

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Isabel Pastor Guzman
2019
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New Ways of Treating Trauma: Try Some Yoga

When a person experiences traumatic events, the aftermath can be extremely debilitating. Trauma not only affects the mind, but can have lifelong effects on the body.

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Jeremy Hobson
2015
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Why You Should Write a Letter to Yourself Tonight

Most of us have poured out our hearts in angry, accusatory, plaintive, or sad letters after people have betrayed or abandoned us. Doing so almost always makes us feel better, even if we never send them.

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Bessel van der Kolk
2014
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How to Rewire Your Traumatized Brain

“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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Concepción de León
2018
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How Dealing with Past Trauma May Be the Key to Breaking Addiction

Opening up to past trauma is difficult, but self-awareness is key to addressing issues that leave us vulnerable.

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Joanna Moorhead
2018
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Note to Colleagues: Please Stop Saying Post Traumatic Stress Is Incurable

You can recover from posttraumatic stress. Certainly, you can significantly reduce—not just manage—its symptoms. But—and here’s the thing—not with traditional treatment.

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Belleruth Naparstek
2010
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Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD)