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• If our clients could have thought their way out of the impact of trauma, they would have done that a long time ago.
• Trauma resolution is not about thinking.
• Healing depends, instead, on the work undertaken at the level of the autonomic nervous system, which shapes our clients’ experiences of safety and influences their capacity for connection.
• Traumatic events have a far-reaching impact on this system.
• Autonomic pathways trigger survival responses that often lead our clients on a painful journey into a state of shutdown, collapse, and dissociation.