Dr. Robert Whitfield explains trauma as a biological response that freezes the body and disrupts processing. He offers a nervous system journal at biologyoftrauma.com/book to help you track time spent in survival mode versus healing mode, which matters especially before surgery.
My book is The Biology of Trauma: How the Body Experiences and Holds Fear, Pain, and Overwhelm, and How to Heal It. And it's very science-based and will help them understand why they paralyze, why they freeze, why they come into your office in a daze and didn't actually hear anything that you said. They're in a trauma response, and it's in their biology, not just psychology. So anyone wanting to understand themselves on that deeper level, You will get so much out of this book. You can buy it on Amazon. And then I have some resources that go with the book that they can find on my website for free. And that's biologyoftrauma.com/book. I have a nervous system journal that they can use to start tracking their— how much time am I actually spending in survival mode as opposed to healing mode? Going into surgery, I would want them to know that so that they can shift and be spending more time in that healing mode so since that's what their body needs to heal from the surgery.
Absolutely. Um, we're going to put that in the show notes as well so everybody can access it.
