Trauma is Really Strange
By: Art by Sophie Standing
Publisher: Singing Dragon; Singing Dragon, an imprint of Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781848192935
Description: What is trauma? How does it change the way our brains work? And how can we overcome it? When something traumatic happens to us, we dissociate and our bodies shut down their normal processes. This unique comic explains the strange nature of trauma and how it confuses the brain and affects the body. With wonderful artwork, cat and mouse metaphors, essential scientific facts, and a healthy dose of wit, the narrator reveals how trauma resolution involves changing the body's physiology and describes techniques that can achieve this, including Trauma Releasing Exercises that allow the body to shake away tension, safely releasing deep muscular patterns of stress and trauma.