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Adoption Network Cleveland presents: Monday Evening Speaker Series
October 23, 2023 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
Free
Why We Can’t Heal, and How We Can: The Essential Step to Healing Trauma and PTSD with Carol Schaefer
When we experience trauma, our hearts are devastated, our guts wrenched and the only way possible to cope with the unbearable sensations is to numb them out. To enable us to move on, our bodies take over the unprocessed memory for us by storing the emotional energy in our muscles, tissues, and organs, in effect rewiring our brains to forget the crushing pain we have no capacity to deal with ourselves.