The Nature of Trauma. Healing the Body's Brain in the Context of Relationships

According to the author, any negative events in a person's life and the surrounding reality (wars, natural disasters, etc.) implicitly leave their mark on the body—in the muscles, abdomen, and heart, the nervous system, and the brain. An additional burden is placed on each of us by the excess of digital data, leading to what is called digital autism—loss of empathy and skills of ordinary human communication. As a result, the nervous system is exhausted by the fast pace, scattered attention, and loss of presence. Consequently, the number of patients suffering from numerous psychological traumas is increasing.

Bonnie Badenoch believes that the best therapy becomes the ability to provide a safe presence. She asserts that a person is made to enter into warm human relationships and maintain them, and that human communication turns out to be the best therapeutic method.

In her book, Bonnie Badenoch discusses neurobiological concepts in plain human language and offers readers ideas based on the study of the brain and body. In her opinion, a therapist can help a client by relying on the achievements of neurobiology and establishing deep relationships with them (and with themselves). Badenoch is confident that the neurobiology of relationships helps heal long-standing traumas that the client may not even remember, because they are stored beyond awareness.