Its interesting-most people think about therapy as something that involves going in and undoing whats happened. But whatever your past experiences created in your brain, the associations exist and you cant just delete them. You cant get rid of the past.Therapy is more about building new associations, making new, healthier default pathways. It is almost as if therapy is taking your two-lane dirt road and building a four-lane freeway alongside it. The old road stays, but you dont use it much anymore. Therapy is building a better alternative, a new default. And that takes repetition, and time, honestly, it works best if someone understands how the brain changes. This is why understanding how trauma impacts our health is essential for everyone.

What Happened To You? by Bruce D. Perry