How do you know you had a dream last night? Not because someone told you. Not because you think it was real. You know because you saw it on a screen in your mind and because of the felt sense—that subtle, familiar quality of oh right, that happened… but not here, not now, not anymore—it’s […]
“What we’re really doing is helping the nervous system change what it expects.” Trauma is not just what happens. It’s what the nervous system learns to expect afterward as it goes forth in life. A raised voice. A kind face. A metal pole. A church bell. The body links these cues in the neural networks, […]