The Body Keeps the Score - Book Summary by a Therapist w/o the Triggering Bits

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

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Learn the skills to Regulate your Emotions, join the membership: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/membership Download the PDF Workbook that goes with this video: Therapy Modalities for Healing Trauma https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/pl/2148622299 I think a lot of people are intimidated by “The Body Keeps the Score”, to be honest I was too. It’s pretty long, and it has a lot of triggering examples of real-life trauma. But it’s a great book for understanding how trauma affects the brain and body and that’s probably why it’s been on the NYT bestseller list for like 5 years! And also that’s probably because trauma affects all of us, and Psychiatrist Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk has written the modern user's guide to understanding it. There’s so much to talk about with Trauma and PTSD and the book is over 350 pages long, so I’m going to summarize the essentials without the triggering bits. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutshell Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.therapyinanutshell.com Check out my favorite self-help books: https://kit.co/TherapyinaNutshell/best-self-help-books Therapy in a Nutshell and the information provided by Emma McAdam are solely intended for informational and entertainment purposes and are not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health conditions. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the views expressed on this site or any related content should not be taken for medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your physician before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health. In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger Institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction. And deeper than all of that, the Gospel of Jesus Christ orients my personal worldview and sense of security, peace, hope, and love https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe If you are in crisis, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org or 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or your local emergency services. Copyright Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Therapy in a Nutshell podcast.
0:05.0	I'm Emma McAdam and I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist.
0:08.0	And this podcast is all about taking the life-changing, but usually kind of complicated topics of therapy
0:14.0	and boiling them down into simple, easy-to-understand concepts that you can use in your daily life.
0:20.0	If you find today's episode is helpful
0:21.5	to you, please pass it on to someone else who could benefit from it as well. Each podcast
0:25.4	episode comes from a corresponding video you can find on The Therapy in a Nutshell YouTube
0:29.7	channel. Also, these podcasts are educational and don't replace the advice or direction you may
0:34.6	be receiving from a therapist or other health professionals. Now please enjoy the episode.
0:39.3	I think a lot of people are intimidated by the body keeps the score, and to be honest, I was too.
0:44.3	It's pretty long, it has a lot of triggering examples of real-life trauma, but it's also a great book for understanding how trauma affects the brain and body,
0:52.3	and that's probably why it's been on the New York
0:55.1	Times bestseller list for like five years. It's also probably because trauma affects all of us,
1:01.4	and the author, Dr. Bessel van der Koke, has written the modern user's guide to understanding trauma.
1:07.4	There's so much to talk about with trauma and PTSD, and the book is over 350 pages
1:13.4	long. So I'm going to summarize the essentials without the triggering bits, and you can download
1:18.5	the free PDF summary link to the description. Okay, so I'm excited to tell you what Dr. Vandercoek
1:26.0	has learned about trauma treatments that are surprisingly effective.
1:29.5	But first, let's talk about the broad impacts that trauma has on the brain, the body, and relationships.
1:36.5	And to do that, we've got to start with a basic question. How would you define trauma?
1:41.5	Now, most of us think of it as an event that is deeply disturbing, but really
1:45.6	trauma is about how different people might respond to the same event with either an adaptive
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