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Lesson 1: How Trauma Changes the Brain

Recognize trauma’s impact on the limbic system.

Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “The only source of knowledge is experience.” But what if someone’s experience includes trauma?

Unfortunately, according to psychiatrist and neuroscientist Bessel van der Kolk, traumatic experience alters a person’s brain and negatively impacts their perspective of themselves and what they “know” about the world a…

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