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What is the Body Brain? How Psychological Trauma is Stored in the Body

by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | May 21, 2022 | 0 comments

When trauma is stored in the brain it is stored on a deep emotional level of the body brain. This sub cortical or “body brain” is responsible for our physical and emotional reactions to stimuli. Trauma and PTSD are stored in this part of the brain. Therapy modalities that activate and regulate the sub cortical brain are the methods that work to heal trauma.

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