Anxiety affects both your brain and your body. Your brain may feel busy - like it is racing and racing. Your body may feel tense, dizzy, sweaty and you may feel easily fatigued.
Relationships can be frustrating. There can be a lot of frustration in a relationship and often times in a cycle of frustration people begin to try and understand what is happening.
Bessel Van der Kolk in his landmark book, The Body Keeps the Score, writes, “We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body. This imprint has ongoing consequences for how the human organism manages to survive in the present. Trauma results in a fundamental reorganization of the way mind and brain manage perceptions. It changes not only how we think and what we think about, but also our very capacity to think.”
One of the most significant couple's relationship books published is called, Hold Me Tight, by Dr. Sue Johnson. The book also has an accompanying workbook.
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