Dr. Daniel J. Siegel introduced me to brain science, and I write about brain scientists like him ‘cos they saved my life. Without them, I’d still be a successful, all-head talk technical writer for Pentagon sales. I’d be unaware of my childhood attachment trauma, unable to feel my past, dissociated, and miserable with anxiety. My cholesterol would still be over 240, and my kidneys headed for failure. An ACE Study poster child who never heard of the ACE Study.
But in March 2011, I clicked on the wrong link in a friend’s email and ended up watching a Dan Siegel webinar on how the brain works in trauma. That’s where my healing began.
Dan Siegel is also relevant to the May 22 New York Times’ dig against Dr. Bessel van der Kolk on repressed memory. If it’s traumatic, we remember it, period, the Times says.
But Dr. Siegel shows extensively that if it’s traumatic, we may very well not remember it.
More important, we almost certainly won’t be able to feel the bodily feelings caused by the trauma, which are still stuck in our bodies. And until we can feel those, we won’t be able to heal the trauma. Siegel illuminates the numerous brain mechanisms which can cause our entire memory system to be fragmented and to misfire badly. READ MORE...
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