OBJECTIVELY, THERE’S VERY little about The Body Keeps the Score that says “best seller,” except the best-seller list, where it’s been perched for nearly four years. Yet this 464-page, densely written tome by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., a psychiatrist and trauma researcher, about how traumatic experiences impact your capacity for pleasure, engagement, trust, and even self-control, has a life of its own right now.
“Kindly asking my body to stop keeping the score,” begs one viral tweet. “Can the score be like soccer and stop at around < 3? I feel like I’m playing with basketball scores,” cheesesteak2018 asks in a Reddit forum on stress. A few posts down, another user chimes in with
