I highly recommend Bessel van der Kolk's book, The Body Keeps the Score. It focuses on the affects of trauma in our lives, the psychological adaptations that result, and therapies to address the associated problems, and make improvements. It has changed my life. Perhaps it affirms what I have suspected all along, that a few Adverse Childhood Experiences (physical abuse, divorce of my parents, bullying) had profound and lasting impacts on who I am, and how I have lived my life. It has given me significant relief and understanding of myself. As he says, when it comes to the brain and body, most research is ME-search.
Julie
