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🧠Book Review 🧠: The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body In The Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. (✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶)

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 ...
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💛 Book Review 💛 : The Beauty in Breaking (A Memoir) by Michele Harper (✶✶✶✶✶)

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...

Currently Reading: The Beauty in Breaking ( A Memoir) by Michele Harper

  Hello everyone! It's been a while since I've last put up a post on here. School got busy just overall so I kept pushing off reading and although I already read quite a bit of this book I forgot to make a post about it overall. But now I'm officially done with my last semester and I'll have more time to read some more books.  Synopsis: 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 every pa...

¿ Book Review ¿ : The Unknown by J.W. Lynne (✶ ✶ ✶ ✶)

Hello Everyone! I'm getting through these books much faster than I really anticipate to. But I keep getting books that I'm really enjoying which motivates me to take time to read them more. I just bought 3 new books and they should be coming soon so I'll make sure to post them in order from when I do read them. Let's get started in this book review.  Introduce the book:  Eight kids, ages nine to seventeen, awaken to find that almost everything they have ever known has been stolen from them. They were ripped from their beds in the middle of the night and transported to an unfamiliar and unforgiving new world where there are strict rules, and they are punished if they refuse to obey. As the kids grapple with their mysterious new reality, they struggle with disconcerting questions... Where in the world are they? Why were they taken away from their families? Will they ever get to go back home? And the most frightening question of all... Will this be the place where they die...

Currently Reading: The Unknown by J.W. LYNNE

  Hello everyone! Hope you're all having a good day so far. I've been a little bit busier this week due to some assignment as well as quizzes going on. But other than that I've honestly just been trying to read this book and play this game called Among Us.. have you played it yet? It's pretty fun, it's just basically mafia but taken place on a spaceship. Kind of fitting for this book actually because there's some sort of mystery element surrounded around it. It's not a murder mystery but it has some sort of mysterious aspect of the unknown literally.  So in this post I will be giving the synopsis of this book and just chat a little about what I'm thinking so far. What aspects I'm liking so far and what aspects I don't like. So let's get to it! Synopsis:  Eight kids, ages nine to seventeen, awaken to find that almost everything they have ever known has been stolen from them. They were ripped from their beds in the middle of the night and trans...

🥀 Book Review🥀 : The Family Upstairs By Lisa Jewell (✶✶✶✶)

Hello everyone, I ended up finishing this book a lot faster than I thought I would. My previous post just had mentioned that I don't even know when I would finish this book and now look at me haha! Well I guess it's fair to say that I enjoyed this book. I gave it a four star rating and I will explain why I liked it within this book review, so let's get started!  Introducing The Book:  Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She learns not only the identity of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood. The home, even in its dilapidated state, is worth millions. Everything in Libby's life is about to change. What she doesn't know is that others have been waiting for this day as well- and although they've been in hiding, they are now h...

Currently Reading: The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

  Hello Everyone! Hope you're all having a wonderful day so far, I woke up today and saw that the sky was just so cloudy from all the smoke that's been hanging around. I hope everyone is safe, fires are such a tragic disaster and what's even more tragic is that one of them was caused by a gender reveal party.... I have no words..  I wanted to talk about the book I'm currently reading, sort of give an overview of what the book's premise is and just give my thoughts as of now. I'll be doing a book review for it once I finish it, I'm not sure when I will because in my last post I mentioned that I'm not going to pressure myself with the content I'm making for this blog. I'm currently in school and a lot of my time will be spent reading for my classes so whenever I finish this book I'll keep you all updated.  The Premise:  Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her ent...