The Body Keeps The Score. Really.

I am constantly fascinated by the body, the mind and the connection between the two. Our many layers, complexities and expressions.

This incredible book explores how life experiences and relationships can shape our minds, our perspective, and response to life, ourselves and others. It sheds insights on human behaviour, how we can process experiences / traumas (especially in our early years) and learn to adapt in response to these - creating behaviours and beliefs that often become inbedded deep in our subconscious.

It provides an understanding of how these adaptive responses can impact the neurology and physiology of a person, which in turn can shape their response to different stimuli, people and environments throughout life; and examines tools / methodologies which can reset the nervous system or support the cognitive rewiring of any negatively developed adaptive patterns from trauma (which may present as conditions such anxiety, depression, addiction and PTSD).

These healing methods include learning to inhabit the body through breathwork, yoga and theatre (which was super interesting!) - in combination with many other therapies. It highlights the value of an integrated approach to healing, due to the nuances of an individual's experience, psychological patterns and each person’s physiology being completely unique.

A must read for anyone interested in psychology, human behaviour, sociology, politics, relationships, wellbeing, mind and body.