I will remember the works of the LORD; Surely I will remember Your wonders of old. Psalm 77:11Remember the prisoners as if chained with them—those who are mistreated—since you yourselves are in the body also. Hebrews 13Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, And that a foolish people has blasphemed Your name. Psalm 74Then they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer. Psalm 7843 From THE LIVE RAGGED EDGE RADIO BROADCAST/SHATTER LIVE TV WEBINAR RUSS DIZDAR ©But the Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor—Counselor, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will help you remember everything that I have told you. John 14 (amplified version)23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. 24See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.… Psalm 139However, most of these FMS advocates are not clinicians who specialize in the long term treatment or study of people with post-traumatic states. 519, 620, 646, 718 It is with trauma survivors, that a more accurate assessment and description of recovered memory may be found, not with college students dents looking at photos.114, 156 In fact, there is a large body of research into traumatic memory which FMS advocates tend to ignore. In addition to the existing research with survivors, which I describe in Chapter 8, one reliable able way to obtain a more accurate topography of traumatic memories will be to continue to study trauma survivors, and to survey and study the front-line clinicians who work with them.Charles Whitfield. Memory and Abuse: Remembering and Healing the Effects of Trauma (Kindle Locations 292-297). Kindle Edition.Long-term memory typically refers to the process of retrieval. However, long-term memory can also refer to encoding, the acquisition of information (see Chapter 1). Long-term memory encoding occurs with little if any effort in everyday life. If a person pays attention to something or it is meaningful, they will likely remember it later.Slotnick, Scott D.. Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology) (p. 59). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition.“Cells that fire together, wire together.” Each and every memory originates as a change in connectivity between brain cells.Levine Phd, Peter A.. Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory (p. 137). North Atlantic Books. Kindle Edition.Memories form the very bedrock of our identities and help define what it means to be human. Though not necessarily entirely accurate or permanent, memories are a magnetic compass that guides us through new situations. They help us render a context for these emerging experiences so that we are able to confidently plan our next steps while44 From THE LIVE RAGGED EDGE RADIO BROADCAST/SHATTER LIVE TV WEBINAR RUSS DIZDAR ©Levine Phd, Peter A.. Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory (pp. 4-5). North Atlantic Books. Kindle Edition.In contrast to “ordinary” memories (both good and bad), which are mutable and dynamically changing over time, traumatic memories are fixed and static. They are imprints (engrams) from past overwhelming experiences, deep impressions carved into the sufferer’s brain, body, and psyche. These harsh and frozen imprints do not yield to change, nor do they readily update with current information. The “fixity” of imprints prevents us from forming new strategies and extracting new meanings. There is no fresh, ever-changing now and no real flow in life. In this way, the past lives on in the present; or as William Faulkner wrote in Requiem for a Nun: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Rather, it lives as a panoply of man