Hello everyone! It's been a while since I've last posted a book review. I just finished this lovely book and am on to the next one so I'll be going over what my thoughts were for this one, enjoy! Synopsis Of The Book: Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The body keeps the score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments --- from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga -- that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain's natural neuroplasticity. Based ...
Hello everyone! As I promised yesterday I'll be making my review of this beautiful book that I recently just finished reading. I hope everyone is doing okay, today outside I can see a lot of smoke happening in my area, I couldn't see the actual fire so I think our area is okay for the most part but I hope everyone will stay safe. Introduce The Book: Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn't move with her. Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman. In the ensuing years, as Harper learned to become an effective ER physician, bringing insight and empathy to e...