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Podcast: The MindHealth360 Show
Episode: 55: Dr. Janina Fisher - The neurobiology of trauma: how trauma can alter our brain, body and behaviour, and how compassion and mindfulness can help us heal
Description: Our latest guest on The MindHealth360 Show, Dr. Janina Fisher, one of the world's leading experts on treating trauma, explains the revolution in trauma treatment since Bessel van der Kolk's work, which showed that trauma is not in the event itself, but rather in the body's reaction to that event, which is stored in the body, the nervous system and the lower brain regions. This explains why talk therapy and CBT, which engage the brain's higher prefrontal cortex, so often fail to address the root causes of mental health issues and are blunt tools when it comes to successfully...