1.) I’d recommend starting with the book The Body Keeps Score, if you are interested in the role of trauma & depression. 2. I’m really just paraphrasing Joe Ca

1.) I’d recommend starting with the book The Body Keeps Score, if you are interested in the role of trauma & depression. 2. I’m really just paraphrasing Joe Campbell here. If you want to see his take on mythology, what it represents, and how Lucas used the Hero’s journey to craft Star Wars, I’d recommend the current Netflix special on Joe Campbell. 3. People tend to dissociate and disconnect from their felt body experience. There is a fairly established body of work on “embodiment” and somatic based therapies. 4. We have our conscious logical brain and we have our emotional brain. Our emotions are mapped to physical sensations in our body. That is what I mean here. 5. I don’t disagree with this. 6. I would say fully healed would be releasing the traumas. One way might say that you demylinate that pathways that trigger the fight or flight response in similar contexts and form new pathways that create a more accurate model of the world as well as increased capacity for self regulation.