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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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Brain Mechanisms that Give the Iceman Unusual Resistance to Cold

Dutch adventurer Wim Hof is known as ‘The Iceman’ for good reason. Hof established several world records for prolonged resistance to cold exposure, an ability he attributes to a self-developed set of techniques of breathing and meditation—known as the Wim Hof Method.

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Wayne State University—Office of the Vice President for Research
2018
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Wim Hof: The Man and the Method

Your breathing rate and pattern is a process within the autonomic nervous system that you can control to some extent to achieve different results.

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Emily Cronkleton
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Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD)