Michael Peck

"The body keeps the score." Bessel van der Kolk's landmark phrase has become a touchstone of trauma-informed culture — and for good reason. It points to something that those who have experienced trauma know in their bones, even if they have never had language for it: trauma is not only a psychological event. It is a physiological one. It lives in the body.

Learn what nervous system regulation really means, why it's essential for emotional resilience and conscious relationships, and the somatic tools that actually work.