Trauma Resolution at The London Trauma Practice

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What is trauma and how can we help resolve the imprint? 

For Bessel van der Kolk, ( The Body Keeps the Score) trauma isn't just a past event, but the ongoing imprint of overwhelming pain, horror, and fear that gets stuck in the body and brain, disrupting memory, emotion regulation, and the sense of safety, causing individuals to relive it as if it's happening now, rather than processing it as a completed memory. It's an experience that overwhelms the nervous system, making it impossible to integrate, leading to symptoms like anxiety, rage, numbing, and difficulty forming relationships, as the body stores the unprocessed sensory information and survival responses. 

This is where our Safety Net allows the body to heal, because trauma is stored in the body and the non-verbal parts of the brain. Traditional "talk therapy" is often insufficient for healing as the pre frontal cortex can bypass feeling , necessitating body-based approaches like yoga, EMDR, and neurofeedback.