Trauma Brain Science

A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress can lead to lifelong health problems, and shows us what we can do to break the cycle. Two-thirds of us have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience, or ACE, such as abuse, neglect, parental substance dependence, or mental illness...

Work More Effectively with Clients Suffering from Trauma Enhance your ability to work skillfully with your clients’ trauma in this professional training taught by Dr. Bonnie Badenoch. Drawing on the latest research and neuroscientifically grounded treatment approaches in the area of trauma...

Your anxiety isn’t irrational. Your pain isn’t imaginary. Your exhaustion isn’t a personal failure. Your brain is doing exactly what it was designed to do—predict the future and protect you from danger. The problem is that many of those predictions are wrong. In YOUR BRAIN IS LYING TO YOU, you’ll discover a startling scientific truth: Most of what you feel—stress, fear, pain, fatigue, even motivation—is not caused by reality itself, but by your brain’s predictions about reality. Those predictions are called beliefs, and they operate far below conscious thought, shaping your ...

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A CALM NEW YEAR! Stop letting stress hijack your body. Discover the science-backed switch to turn off anxiety and turn on healing—in just minutes a day. Have you tried everything to calm your racing mind, fix your digestion, or boost your energy, only to feel more frustrated? You’ve downloaded the meditation apps, bought the expensive supplements, and tried the trendy routines, yet you still wake up feeling on edge, bloated, or exhausted. It is easy to feel like your body is fighting against you, or worse, that these symptoms are "all in your head." But you aren’t...

Are you ready to reclaim your life from the shadows of your past? Breaking Free: A Survivor’s Guide to Healing Childhood Trauma is a powerful and compassionate roadmap for adults ready to heal from the invisible wounds of early trauma. If you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected because of painful childhood experiences, this book offers the guidance, validation, and tools you need to begin again—with strength, clarity, and hope. Written by someone who truly understands both professionally and personally, this guide gently walks you through the emotional and physical impact...

From neuroscientist and bestselling author Lisa Genova comes a story of resilience in the face of a devastating diagnosis. After a car crash leaves a vibrant mother in her thirties with a traumatic brain disorder called “left neglect,” she learns what truly matters most in life. Sarah...

Are we really the masters of our own destiny? Neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow shows how far our future is already hardwired in our brains. Like Sapiens and Thinking Fast and Slow, The Science of Fate revolutionises the way we understand our species and ourselves. So many of us believe that we...

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...

“They don’t walk. They don't run. They only move when you blink.” For former forensic psychologist and computer scientist Arthur Vance, the quiet night shift at the Sterling Museum of History was supposed to be a sanctuary. A clinical, predictable routine to escape his shattered career and the paralyzing grief of his daughter's death. But routine is a fragile shield. When the Vogel Collection arrives—a traveling exhibition of late nineteenth-century wax, porcelain, and papier-mâché dolls—Arthur’s analytical mind detects minor, unsettling anomalies. A display case left ...

The depth or imaginal psychotherapy is highly effective in treating and assessing adult survivors of childhood abuse. Specifically, interventions that use dreams, symbols, and metaphor, as well as expressive art techniques, are deemed especially valuable as they address dissociative changes. By assessing specific depth psychological aspects of the individual’s shattered sense of self, a more focused and efficient treatment plan can be created sooner in the course of therapy. Discover more with Brain Healing and Trauma.

Grief does not only come from death. It can also come from lost love, divorce, betrayal, estrangement, and the kind of goodbye you never got to have. Sometimes the loss is real and final. Sometimes the person is still alive, but the relationship is gone. Either way, your brain can react as if something essential has been torn away. The Grief Trap explains why some people do not move through grief in a straight line. It shows how love and attachment are wired into the nervous system and why the mind can get stuck replaying memories, searching for answers, and hoping for a different ending. ...

My name is Tom Bailey and I'm a trainer and personal growth expert with over 15 years of experience helping people make meaningful, lasting changes in their lives. In this short introduction, I want to share why my book, "Vegas Nerve Exercises to Rewire Your Brain", could be the key to the transformation you've been looking for.

Do you suffer from chronic anxiety, panic attacks, depression, or chronic inflammation? Did you know that learning the techniques for Vagus Nerve stimulation can help you truly feel better? If you want to know how that’s possible, keep reading. This audiobook will guide you through the discovery of a fundamental part of your nervous system, and it will show you the characteristics and the potential of Vagus Nerve stimulation.

Are you successfully acquiring everything you want, yet still starving for what you actually need? We live in an era of unprecedented digital noise and material abundance. Yet, beneath the polished surfaces of our daily lives, a profound exhaustion persists. Humanity is trapped in the "Velocity of Emptiness"—a relentless cycle of chasing holographic desires programmed by society, achieving them, and still feeling completely unfulfilled. For decades, popular pop-spirituality and superficial manifestation techniques have failed us. They teach us how to want more, but they do not teach us ...

WE HAVE TWO MINDS. The world's top-selling parenting writer, and author of Raising Boys, Steve Biddulph, says that we don't just have two halves of our brain - left and right - but we also have two minds. We have our normal mind, which overthinks, rattles about and gets defensive. And we have...

Why do you keep repeating patterns you hate? Why does the life that looks right on paper feel hollow? Why do you want things you cannot seem to reach, and reach things that do not satisfy you the way you expected? The answers are in your brain. Specifically, in five neural drives that have been running your life since before you could name them. In Your Wanting Brain, Maria Merlino draws on decades of research across attachment theory, reward neuroscience, developmental psychology, and the emerging science of meaning to reveal the five core drives that shape every significant choice you ...