Your Brain Dancing with the Heart of Trauma

There are certain teachers whose wisdom resonates immediately upon encountering it. Their words deliciously activate the pleasure centers in my body and brain. This week’s Enchanted Loom features two such wisdom teachers. The first is by clinical psychologist and best-selling author, Mary Pipher. I’m sure many of you are familiar with her book on female adolescence, Reviving Ophelia. With her current book, Women Rowing North, Dr. Pipher has leapfrogged the developmental spectrum and taking us directly into the depths of women’s experience navigating Act III. Having grown up in a family filled with only women, I feel comfortable with the issues and concerns she presents and explores at this time in human history. Click HERE to view my Enchanted Loom review of Women Rowing North.

The other wisdom teacher who’s got my reward neurotransmitters reverberating is Dr. Bonnie Badenoch. Her book, The Heart of Trauma turns out to be a very deep dive into many the challenges contemporary life presents to our brain, essentially unchanged since we roamed the Serengeti Plain. That brain struggles in its capacity for sustained, healthy human connection and much of what Bonnie addresses are many of the reasons why and what we can actually begin practicing to foster healthy relationships. We live in a left brain dominated world and unless we learn ways and means for beginning to shift that neurobiological hemispheric imbalance, our lives together are going to continue to be filled with struggle and suffering. Click this Enchanted Loom link to begin exploring the heart of your own trauma