We now know that trauma compromises the brain areas that communicate the physical embodied feeling of being alive. These changes explain why traumatized individuals become hypervigilant to threat at the expense of spontaneously engaging in their day-to-day lives. They also help us understand why traumatized people so often keep repeating the same problems and have such trouble learning from experience. We now know that their behaviours are not the result of moral failings or signs of lack of willpower or bad character-they are caused by actual changes in the brain.
— Bessel van der Kolk (van der Kolk is a Boston based psychiatrist, professor of psychiatry, author of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma and researcher. He is an industry leader in studying and treating trauma and the founder and medical director of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts).
My favourite therapist says there is no quick fix, when exploring and trying to resolve our deepest rooted issues. He also says we cannot change where we were born, who our parents are and what happened to us along the way. Some things are just our legacy. Knowing that trauma actually impacts the physical body, it’s easier to understand why recovery is so challenging. Just sayin’ :) Hugs. XO
Blessings,
Chatgirl
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