Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Bessel van der Kolk, he's a psychiatrist, researcher, and an author. Trauma is often discussed as a mental and psychological issue, but what if it affects more than just the mind? What does it mean if your body is

holding on to trauma and how might these memories manifest outside of our brains?

Expect to learn what is meant by the body keeping the score, what is wrong

with the traditional way that we talk about trauma, how you can learn to be more

self-compassionate, how trauma manifests and masks itself as illnesses, the best

therapies and modalities for understanding and releasing trauma, and much more.

Trauma is a bit of a weird word for me, actually. I've sat in many a sauna in Austin and heard

people talking about their ancestral trauma and dealing with past wounds and stuff and it kind of

gave me a bit of an ick and yet the more that I have looked at it the more I've become open-minded to

the psychological injuries that we all go through often before we're even

able to remember them or verbalize them and the importance of

making ourselves feel safe and secure and emotionally robust and Bessel's work is really fantastic. I love that he takes a sort of holistic integrated

approach. He is not trying to throw drugs at the problem. He is trying to do it from a much more

careful integrated modality.

And yeah, he's a fascinating guy.

I mean, he's broken the internet.

The body keeps the score.

This book absolutely broke the internet.

And there's so much to take away from today.

So I really, really hope that you enjoy this one.

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