This episode is primarily a book report of: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

Links & Articles

• Desirée recommends the works of Oliver Sacks
• Trauma | Psychology Today

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• Episode 27: Death Positivity - discussion of the death positive movement, The Order of the Good Death, and that one time Cameron faceplanted directly into the chest cavity of an embalmed corpse.
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