Reading "The Body Keeps the Score" right after "Existential Kink" feels like seeing Matrix code or some shit
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fwiw i liked body keeps the score but i found it a little cold and clinical - peter levine’s books about somatic experiencing cover similar territory but i found them warmer and more poetic in a way that felt more aligned with the material
it begins with a story of him getting hit by a car which is just riveting
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I found Body Keeps The Score very interesting since it talks a lot about how the body reacts to certain things, what symptoms that might have, and so on, but it spares very little for how that /feels/. It's a perhaps-needed perspective, but it does not make for comfort reading.
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I would love to be more levinepilled. I read the tiger one and had trouble with the framing, it felt like he was claiming an objective (peer reviewable, science-y) truth that I assume isn't there? maybe it was in my head. now I'm reading "trauma-proofing your kids" and loving it
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it could be called like "the ideal parent figure instruction manual" or something
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I have this book! I also read the car accident story in the beginning, that's about as far as I've read so far! I need to pick it up again 🥰