The Body Keeps the Score: A 7-Day Plan to Heal Mind & Body

We must start here. This is the foundational text on how trauma and stress get lodged in the body. It provides the essential framework for understanding that you can't heal your mind without engaging your body. This is the 'why' for the whole journey.

After understanding how the body 'keeps the score' yesterday, today we learn the #1 tool for recovery: sleep. This book reveals how sleep is essential for processing emotions and healing both brain and body. It's the most powerful, practical first step you can take.

Now that you're prioritizing sleep, this book gives you the daytime toolkit. It teaches you how to 'complete the stress cycle' so that stressful emotions don't get stuck in your body, building on the core lesson from The Body Keeps the Score.

After learning to manage the stress cycle, we now address a modern source of imbalance: cheap dopamine. This book explains how our constant chase for pleasure is disrupting our brain's chemistry, providing a crucial key to restoring your baseline mood.

With a better understanding of your brain's chemistry from yesterday, this classic self-help book tackles the next layer: your thoughts. It's a practical guide to identifying and eliminating self-defeating thought patterns that cause unhappiness and anxiety.

Building on the work of mastering your thoughts, this book takes you a step further. It's a spiritual guide to observing your thoughts and emotions without identifying with them. This practice of 'un-tethering' is a powerful path to inner peace.

For our finale, we combine mind and body into a powerful practice. After a week of understanding the problems, this book offers a specific, meditative method for using your mind to heal your body and create a new reality. It's the ultimate synthesis of this journey.