From an amazing, insightful book, The Body Keeps the Score, by psychiatrist and pioneer of trauma treatment, Bessel van der Kolk.

I’m listening at 1.25 speed because it’s due back at the library very soon and I waited months along with many others to get this audio book. Will be buying a copy to review. I recommend this book very highly.

This section, the beginning of part five, leaped out at me — a trusting connection with calm loved ones is indispensable for preventing (and healing from) trauma. It’s intuitive and hard to deny once you hear Bessel lay it out. This captures a lot of the misery of the world in about two minutes, and points the way towards its resolution.