BITESIZE | How To Begin Healing Your Past & How Trauma Impacts Your Physical Health | Dr Bessel van der Kolk #564
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Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite-size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 336 of the podcast with professor of psychiatry and author of the best-selling book, The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Bessel Vanderkook. In this clip, we discuss how trauma is different from stress, how traumatic experiences leave an imprint in our bodies, and why he thinks that body focused therapies such as yoga could play a vital role in healing.
I wanted to start with a quote from your iconic book, The Body Keeps the Score. Trauma robs you of the feeling that you are in charge of yourself. Oh, that's That's a true statement. What did you mean by that?
When you get traumatized, it's not the external event, but your reaction to that external event is that you uh you cannot cope with it and then you're vulnerable to react to other things as if they're catastrophes so you may suddenly find yourself very scared or very angry or very aroused or very panicky or you can shut down and so you really have no control over those intense emotional reactions that happen after a trauma. Yeah so in many ways people who are traumatized feel that their lives are out of control that life is I guess happening to them rather than them being in control of their lives. Yeah, they ha they they keep reacting to stuff uh and things are disorganized and then oftentimes they start off blaming the people around them for having caused them to be so angry or panic or something or another, but
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