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To navigate a trauma response or difficult emotional situation, we need to feel truly heard and seen by the people around us. “Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.” Essentially, people lose their executive function, which is why people often say they’re “losing their minds.” So when trauma is activated, it is primarily an emotional, right-brain experience that you have without the ability to use the reasoning of the left brain to understand or solve what is happening. What happens when people get very upset or have trauma is that their left brain stops functioning well.

The left brain is linguistic, sequential, and analytical.

The right brain is intuitive, emotional, visual, spatial, and tactual.

Trauma’s impact on the left and right brain.

It overlooks how we can change people’s environments to help them feel safe and thrive.

It overlooks how we can change our own physiology via breathing, moving, and touching.

It overlooks how we can use language to change ourselves and find new sources of meaning.

It overlooks how relationships and community are central to our well-being and healing.

There are four limitations when thinking of pharmacological solutions as the catch-all cure: One of the core problems with this “brain-disease model” of mental health is that it takes away agency from people to solve their own problems and puts trust in doctors and insurance companies who promise the cure. This view of mental health as being caused by brain imbalances led to the proliferation of drugs being dispensed to people as a catch-all cure for a host of psychological and mental health disorders. The pharmacological revolutionĪround the 1970s, psychiatry gained steam as a leading solution center for mental health issues as the cause of mental illness began to be seen as a chemical imbalance in the brain.

Without it, we have no hope and are unable to envision a better future with goals and places to go. And imagination is at the core of having a high-quality life. When people experience trauma, they are pulled back to their past, losing mental flexibility and suffering from a lack of imagination. This book explores what trauma is, how it forms and the ways it manifests, and various modalities for beginning to rethink and heal trauma through various practices across disciplines.Īccess My Searchable Collection of 100+ Book Notes Key Takeaways Trauma limits the imagination The Body Keeps is a deep dive into the science of the brain, mind, and body as it relates to healing trauma.