Published Jan 31, 2025

What If Healing Your Mind Starts in Your Body?

Delve into the pioneering insights of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk as he uncovers the transformative intersection of trauma healing through mind-body connection, challenging traditional psychiatry with innovative therapies like psychedelics and movement, to redefine the path to recovery.

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- Can you explain more about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and how it works?
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- How effective is EMDR compared to other therapies?
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- Is it true that the nervous system needs a different input at the right time to change a reaction, as discussed in episode #368: Polyvagal Path: Healing Your Nervous System & Your Life with Dr. Stephen Porges and the clip Body Awareness Journey? For example, if a person has a fear or phobia and their body becomes reactive when they encounter a trigger, would a solution be to try to calm the body with breathwork at that moment? Would this approach provide a different input to the nervous system so that over time it stops being activated by the original trigger? Is this how Pavlov's dogs experiment is used as a tool for changing the nervous system's responses?
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- Should someone use psychedelics?
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- How does EMDR work at a neurological level?
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- What are the benefits of yoga?
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- Is ketamine an effective antidepressant according to the episode Dr. Nolan Williams: Psychedelics & Neurostimulation for Brain Rewiring | Huberman Lab Podcast #93 and the clip Dissociation and Emotion?
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- How to heal trauma
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- What is the typical procedure during an EMDR session?
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- If we can't forget traumatic events but can modify our emotional response to past events, can the changes to a person's character following an event also be reversed or altered? For example, if someone who was once very positive and engaging returns from war or suffers the loss of a parent/spouse and as a result becomes guarded and distant, how much of our "character" is malleable? Or can people truly become "stuck in their ways"?
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- Is there a podcast that covers the topic of trauma?
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- What is EMDR?
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- How can I cope with my traumatic memories?
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- What is the impact of emotional trauma?
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- How does the body store trauma physically, and how can a yoga practice release emotions stored in the body?
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