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    • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk explores how trauma impacts both the brain and body, offering insights into healing through therapies like mindfulness and yoga. A powerful, essential read for understanding and overcoming trauma.
    • Always Do Your Best Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin THE FOURTH AGREEMENT Always Do Your Best THERE IS JUST ONE MORE AGREEMENT, BUT IT’S the one that allows the other three to become deeply ingrained habits. The fourth agreement is about the action of the first three: Always do your best. Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next. Everything is alive and changing all the time, so your best will sometimes be high quality, and other times it…
    • Chapter 8: Trapped in Relationships: The Cost of Abuse and Neglect Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Chapter 8 dives deeply into the challenges faced by survivors of abuse and neglect, particularly through the lens of Marilyn's experience. She was a woman who, despite her professional success and outward composure, found herself ensnared in cycles of terror and numbness. Marilyn’s story sheds light on how childhood trauma can manifest in adult life, leading to overwhelming feelings of alienation, rage, and self-destructive behavior. These emotional scars often go unnoticed, even by the individuals…
    • Chapter 14: Nutrition 3.0: You Say Potato, I Say “Nutritional Biochemistry” Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Chapter 14 explores the complexity and confusion surrounding nutrition, emphasizing the misinformation that has pervaded dietary discussions. The author draws on both personal experiences and professional insights to critique the divisive nature of popular diets and the shortcomings of traditional nutritional science. The chapter reflects on the author's journey from adhering strictly to a ketogenic diet to adopting a more flexible and scientifically informed approach, which he refers to as "Nutritional…
    • III PRECAUTIONS BEFORE BEGINNING Cover
      by LovelyMay In "Precautions Before Beginning," the third chapter of "How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day," the author addresses the reader's potential dissatisfaction with their daily life's organization and their perpetual postponement of desired activities due to a perceived lack of time. He emphasizes the bitter truth that no additional time will ever be found—as everyone is allotted the same twenty-four hours each day—dismissing the expectation for an easy solution to perfectly managing one's day to…
    • Chapter 19: Rewiring the Brain: Neurofeedback Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Chapter 19: Rewiring the Brain: Neurofeedback. The summer following my first year of medical school, I found myself working as a part-time research assistant in a sleep lab at Boston State Hospital. My responsibilities involved preparing and monitoring study participants while analyzing their EEG, or electroencephalogram, readings. Subjects would come in, I’d attach electrodes to their scalps and around their eyes, and set up machines to record brain activity throughout the night, all while analyzing the…
    • Praise for The Body Keeps the Score Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Praise for The Body Keeps the Score “This book is a tour de force. Its deeply empathic, insightful, and compassionate perspective promises to further humanize the treatment of trauma victims, dramatically expand their repertoire of self-regulatory healing practices and therapeutic options, and also stimulate greater creative thinking and research on trauma and its effective treatment. The body does keep the score, and Van der Kolk’s ability to demonstrate this through compelling descriptions of the…
    • Breaking Old Agreements Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Breaking Old Agreements EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT FREEDOM. ALL AROUND the world different people, different races, different countries are fighting for freedom. But what is freedom? In America we speak of living in a free country. But are we really free? Are we free to be who we really are? The answer is no, we are not free. True freedom has to do with the human spirit — it is the freedom to be who we really are. Who stops us from being free? We blame the government, we blame the weather, we blame our…
    • Chapter 9: What’s Love Got To Do With It? Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Chapter 9 begins by shedding light on the complexities surrounding individuals like Marilyn, Mary, and Kathy, who often receive multiple diagnoses due to a failure to understand the root causes of their struggles. Typically, these individuals might be labeled with disorders such as bipolar disorder, depression, or ADHD, depending on which aspect of their symptoms the healthcare provider focuses on. However, these diagnoses fail to capture the full extent of their experiences, particularly if the underlying…
    • Chapter 15: Putting Nutritional Biochemistry into Practice: How to Find the Right Eating Pattern for You Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Chapter 15 highlights the complex relationship between diet, metabolic health, and individual nutritional needs, emphasizing that there is no universal solution when it comes to food. Through personal anecdotes and stories from patients, the author illustrates how commonly held beliefs about nutrition—such as the idea that a vegan diet or trendy eating plans automatically lead to better health—can often be misleading. These narratives shed light on the flaws of the Standard American Diet (SAD), which…
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