06/17/2026
Bessel van der Kolk, whose landmark research on trauma and the body influenced an entire field of therapeutic practice, found that traumatic memory is stored differently from ordinary memory — encoded in sensory and physical experience rather than in coherent narrative, which is why trauma often surfaces as physical sensation, emotional flooding, or behavioral reaction before it ever becomes a conscious recollection. Your body is not overreacting. It is accurately reporting a memory that was never stored in words. Share this because understanding how trauma is stored changes everything about how people approach their own healing.
📊 🔬 Share this — the body keeps the score in a language most people were never taught to read.
