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# The Book My Therapist Recommended Twice

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- By [KaiRenner](https://slatesource.com/u/KaiRenner)
- Social Sciences & Psychology
- Created on Apr 26, 2026

> Reading this book was the hardest and most useful thing I did all year.

## When Your Therapist Repeats Herself

She mentioned it in our fourth session. I nodded and forgot. Three months later she brought it up again, and something in her voice made me write it down. The Body Keeps the Score is not an easy read. It is careful and sometimes devastating. It explains how trauma lives in the body and not just in memory. I am glad she told me twice.

My therapist recommended it twice. I finally listened the third time.

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# Reading The Body Keeps the Score

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# Bessel van der Kolk

Psychiatrist and trauma researcher. Founder of the Trauma Center. Author of The Body Keeps the Score

Boston, Massachusetts

This is not a book to read during a hard season without support around you. It will surface things. Have someone to talk to before you begin.

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