“The body remembers everything” is not a threat or a sentence, but a fact. But cuts heal, bruises pass, broken bones fuse, and some injuries do not go away for many years and continue to cause pain. What do we know about them and how to be with them? In the book “The Body Remembers Everything”, Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk talks about how to help yourself and your loved ones return to full life. Combining trauma research and experience, he explains how trauma can rob a person of self-control, close relationships, and the ability to feel joy. His patients are people who have suffered from domestic violence, the horrors of war, other people's cruelty and indifference. On the example of their stories, Dr. Bessel shows how important an individual approach is and how many different treatment practices exist. He calls for accepting the true nature of the trauma and exploring ways to treat it so that people who have lost control of their lives have a chance at recovery. Read more: https://www. labirint. en/books/738355/