February 2023

“Most human suffering is related to love and loss and that the job of therapists is to help people “acknowledge, experience, and bare” the reality of life—with all its pleasures and heartbreak. “The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves,” he’d say, urging us to be honest with ourselves about every facet of our experience. He often said that people can never get better without knowing what they know and feeling what they feel.”

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The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

“Healing, he told us, depends on experiential knowledge: You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral”

Excerpt From

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.