Trauma is Really Strange

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With a positive emphasis on human resilience, it encourages better understanding of trauma and describes some simple Trauma Releasing Exercises. He explores the science behind how touch makes us feel real and connected, and how it is essential to the development of consciousness and to perception. The science behind anxiety is explained in this engaging and highly original graphic medicine book, with in-depth analysis of where anxiety comes from, what it means for your body, and how to turn it into something positive. What is trauma? This unique comic explains the strange nature of trauma and how it confuses the brain and affects the body. Our initial experience of life and existence is tactile and spatial at its core. 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. How does it change the way our brains work?