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    The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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    The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is a groundbreaking book that explores the deep connection between trauma, the brain, and the body. Drawing on years of research and clinical experience, van der Kolk shows how trauma reshapes both mind and body, and offers transformative insights into healing through therapies like mindfulness, yoga, and neurofeedback. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand trauma and its effects, this book is both informative and deeply compassionate.

    1. Praise for The Body Keeps the Score
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    2. Contents
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    3. Prologue: Facing Trauma
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    4. Chapter 1: Lessons from Vietnam Veterans
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    5. Chapter 2: Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain
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    6. Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution
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    7. Chapter 4: Running for Your Life: The Anatomy of Survival
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    8. Chapter 5: Body-Brain Connections
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    9. Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self
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    10. Chapter 7: Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement
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    11. Chapter 8: Trapped in Relationships: The Cost of Abuse and Neglect
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    12. Chapter 9: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
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    13. Chapter 10: Developmental Trauma: The Hidden Epidemic
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    14. Chapter 11: Uncovering Secrets: The Problem of Traumatic Memory
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    15. Chapter 12: The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering
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    16. Chapter 13: Healing from Trauma: Owning Your Self
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    17. Chapter 14: Language: Miracle and Tyranny
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    18. Chapter 15: Letting Go of the Past: EMDR
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    19. Chapter 16: Learning to Inhabit your Body: Yoga
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    20. Chapter 17: Putting the Pieces Together: Self-Leadership
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    21. Chapter 18: Filling in the Holes: Creating Structures
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    22. Chapter 19: Rewiring the Brain: Neurofeedback
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    23. Chapter 20: Finding Your Voice: Communal Rhythms and Theater
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    24. APPENDIX: CONSENSUS PROPOSED CRITERIA FOR DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA DISORDER
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    25. EPILOGUE: CHOICES TO BE MADE
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    26. FURTHER READING
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    27. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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    28. NOTES
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    29. INDEX
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