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Integrated Healing and Recovery


🌊 Beyond the Couch: Why Emotional Dysregulation Needs More Than Just Talk
Talk therapy is a powerful tool—but it isn't always enough to stop an emotional storm. 🌊 For trauma survivors, emotional dysregulation can feel like being a child behind the wheel of a runaway car. You know you need to slow down, but the rational "brakes" in your brain (the prefrontal cortex) are temporarily offline while your nervous system takes over. Because trauma is stored physically in the body, talking about it primarily engages language centers—not the survival circu
Melissa Alton
Jul 301 min read
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