Everyday trauma remapping the brain's response to stress, anxiety, and painful memories for a better life
"A neuroscientist explores how trauma impacts the brain, especially for women-and how we can learn to heal ourselves Everyone experiences trauma. Whether a specific harrowing event or a series of stressful moments that culminate over time, trauma can echo and etch itself into our brain as we remembe...
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New York, NY :
Flatiron Books,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Part I: The stories of our lives. Life's traumas--both large and small ; How stress and trauma change our lives ; The two forms of everyday trauma
- Part II: From thoughts to memories to feelings. Ruminations: thoughts that get stuck in our brains ; The brain is always learning ; Women and their changing brains ; Everyday neurons for everyday life
- Part III: Preparing our brains for everyday trauma. Therapies for stress and trauma ; MAP train my brain: a "mental and physical" training program ; Why we should train our brains ; Living with traumas: past, present, and future.
