08/05/2026
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"The body keeps the score."
You've heard the phrase. You've maybe read the book. But here's what Dr. Bessel van der Kolk has spent 50 years showing us:
→ Trauma is not the event. Trauma is what gets stuck in the body when the event was too much, too fast, or too soon.
→ The thinking brain (prefrontal cortex) goes offline during trauma. The body remembers what the mind couldn't process.
→ Insight is not enough. You can know exactly what happened to you and still be physiologically captive to it.
→ Healing requires bottom-up approaches: yoga, EMDR, neurofeedback, IFS, somatic experiencing, theatre, breath, touch.
This is not woo. This is neuroscience.
And it's why our work, and the work of our faculty including Dr. van der Kolk, focuses on the body as the entry point.
Have you read The Body Keeps The Score? What part landed hardest for you?