Reconnecting With Your Body After Trauma

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Trauma can have a long and devastating impact on our bodies, but psychologists are learning interesting and useful ways to get individuals to reconnect with their bodies again after negative past experiences.

Research Shows Stress Strengthens Emotional Memories

There was an interesting study recently published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Researchers at the University of Montreal’s Center for Studies on Human Stress tested to see the effects of cortisol (“the stress hormone,” commonly associated with our body’s fight-or-flight response) on participant’s memories of an emotional event. The experimenters had participants (more…)