November Bookie Brunch

Join us for our November Bookie Brunch! We'll gather at Books + Records in Bankers Hill to discuss The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D. 

This author draws on more than thirty years of research and clinical practice in trauma. Did you know that trauma literally reshapes both your brain and body? New insights into our survival instincts explain why traumatized people experience anxiety and rage, and how trauma affects our capacity to concentrate, to remember, to form trusting relationships, and even to feel at home in our own bodies. A constant sense of danger and helplessness promotes the continuous secretion of stress hormones, which wreaks havoc with the immune system and the functioning of the body’s organs. After reading this book you will come away with awe at human resilience and at the power of our…