"The body keeps the score" is only half the story, and the missing half matters: a body described only as a harbinger of the past is a body people learn to avoid.

What this subject means

Trauma What overwhelming experience leaves behind, and whether it is stored in the body, the memory, or the loop between them.

On the topicWhat makes psychotherapy work?under our view: Nothing lands until the nervous system settles, so the body comes before the insight

What Arielle Schwartz actually said

Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?

In tension with

Childhood trauma is the template for every addiction, including the socially rewarded ones.

Mate makes childhood trauma the template for every addiction, including the socially rewarded ones, and locates the injury in what happened. Schwartz says the body-keeps-the-score story is only half of it, and that a body described only as a harbinger of the past is a body people learn to avoid. Same clinical material, opposite emphasis about where the patient should be looking.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.