2024-11-14
1 小时 1 分钟Bessel van der Kolk, legendary trauma expert and author of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma reveals a revolutionary approach to healing trauma. Discover how trauma profoundly impacts the brain and body, making growth difficult by trapping us in past experiences. Explore potent mind-body practices like yoga, dance, and psychedelics that can unlock trauma's grip by igniting collective joy, self-compassion, and an expansive perspective on our vast human potential. Gain life-changing insights to feel truly alive again. You can find Bessel at: Website | Instagram | Episode Transcript If you LOVED this episode you’ll also love the conversations we had with Ellen Hendrikson about social anxiety. Check out our offerings & partners: Join My New Writing Project: Awake at the WheelVisit Our Sponsor Page For Great Resources & Discount Codes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The thing that people don't talk enough about to my mind, is that when you get traumatized, it makes it very difficult to learn important new life skills and to grow and to mature in some ways because you keep sort of getting stuck on I'm a little child who's getting hurt and you don't have the opportunity to really feel, oh, that's what it feels like to be an adult who's more or less in charge of their own lives.
So these last few years, they've dealt a lot of blows to our state of mind, body and health.
And on some level, it's been hard to escape some form of trauma, even if you can't point to a big capital T thing that happened.
We live in this perpetual sea of micro moments that unsettle, upset, and shake us in a way that can leave a mark.
Whether we know it's there or not, whether we realize or acknowledge it.
It's affecting so many of us.
You, me, pretty much everyone on some level.
The question is, what do we do about that?
This is the very question I explore with my guest this week, Bessel Van der Kolk, legendary trauma researcher, psychiatrist, and author of a book that has been locked onto the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list for years now.
The Body keeps the score, and the very fact that it has been there speaks to the pervasiveness of what so many have been feeling.
In 1984, Bessel established one of the first clinical research centers in the US Dedicated to the study and treatment of traumatic stress in civilian populations, while also training researchers and clinicians specializing in the study and treatment of traumatic stress.
He was a member of the first neuroimaging team to investigate how trauma actually changes the brain, and his efforts led to the establishment of the Trauma Research foundation, developing new treatment models that are widely taught and implemented nationwide, a research lab that studies the effects of neurofeedback and MDMA on behavior and mood and executive functioning, and numerous trainings nationwide to a variety of mental health professionals and educators, parent groups, policymakers, and even law enforcement personnel.
A quick alert before we dive into this deeply important and valuable conversation.
Trauma comes from many different experiences, some of them deeply disturbing and potentially triggering.
In this conversation, which is focused much more on how trauma affects us and what we can do about it more broadly, Bessel does occasionally reference specific experiences in detail to provide context.
We wanted to give you a heads up so that you can make the best choice about how and whether to listen.
Really excited to share this best of conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project.
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