The Left Brain Builds, the Right Brain Breaks — Unless We Learn to Listen
Try to map the emotion to the right word, while understanding that you may not yet know all the words for all emotions—or that you might be using the same word to describe very different emotional states.
It’s still early days with my new book, which leans more toward the therapeutic side of things: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk.
While the book itself explores how the brain, the mind, and eventually the body are involved in healing from trauma, what’s caught my attention so far—again, it's early—is something else: the two sides of the brain, the left and the right. In many traumatized individuals, there seems to be a disconnection between these two sides—particularly a shutdown or isolation of the left hemisphere, which is responsible for logical thinking, language, and sequencing.
