During a flashback, the part of the brain that produces words goes quiet. Bessel van der Kolk found it in the scanner, and it explains something every coach has felt in the room: the client understands the pattern completely, describes it better than you can, and changes nothing. Trauma is not held as a story. It is held in the body. After 5,575 assessments in sixteen languages, here is which part of the body is keeping the score and what each one is counting.
