I never connected with the book “The Body Keeps the Score.” I understand it helped a large audience understand things and have new language around trauma, but each time I attempted to move my way through the book, I felt, for me, it didn’t allow breathing room to digest the magnitude of what the score was.
I will be 49 next month. I think about how life works differently for me now vs. when I was 39, 29, 19…or nine. One theme that continues as I get older is my personal life becomes quieter. It doesn’t mean I don’t want people, but when you pursue healing, you have to relearn a lot of your relationship skills so you do not repeat old patterns. I have had to face the fear that I will once again feel…