Bessel van der Kolk — 💊 Healing Quote

Body-based healing requires teaching our nervous system that danger has passed.

“For real change to take place the body needs to learn that the danger has passed and to live in the reality of the present”

Body-based healing requires teaching our nervous system that danger has passed.

“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health and kindness creates that safety”

— Bessel van der Kolk

“The body keeps the score and it always wins”

— Bessel van der Kolk

“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health”

— Bessel van der Kolk

“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information you are fundamentally at war with yourself and healing cannot begin”

— Bessel van der Kolk