The Quiet Part Out Loud: What They Don't Tell You About Somatics, Psychedelics and Trauma

By Hans P. Anderssen

Drawing on the work of Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk and Peter Levine, the author explores concepts that he found to be hidden and understated as he aggressively dug into his own trauma, curiously explored the strange new world of somatics, and daringly experimented with mind-altering psychedelics. 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Q P Publishing
• Release date: Apr 16, 2024
• ISBN: 9781738369614

Hans P. Anderssen

Hans P. Anderssen was born and raised in the beautiful Canadian west coast city of Victoria. Hans loves spending time with his family, cold-dipping in the ocean, playing soccer and hiking. He has worked as a forester, pastor, and for the last 15 years in Indigenous reconciliation. The Quiet Part Out Loud is Hans' first book.More resources and Hans' contact info can be found at: Quietpartoutloud.ca

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PART ONE

TRAUMA

1. Everyone has Trauma

2. The Symptoms of Trauma

3. Trauma is Stored in Your Body

4. Family

5. Intergenerational Trauma

6. Addiction and Trauma

7. Trauma, Drama, Cry to Your Momma

CHAPTER 1

EVERYONE HAS TRAUMA

Trauma has become so commonplace that most people don’t even recognize its presence. It affects everyone.

– Peter Levine, Waking the Tiger

It is hard to imagine the scope of an individual life without envisioning some kind of trauma, and it is hard for most people to know what to do about it.

– Mark Epstein, The Trauma of Everyday Life

Does everyone have trauma? Do you have trauma? Perhaps the reason you are reading this book is because, like I did two years ago, you are asking yourself, do I have trauma?

This book is based primarily on the writings of three world-renowned trauma researchers, Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine and Gabor Maté. Their writings on this subject are voluminous. Here is a summary statement from each of them suggesting that we all have some degree of trauma:

Trauma happens to us, our friends, our families, and our neighbors.

– Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score (pg. 1)

Each of us has had a traumatic experience at some time in our lives, regardless of whether it left us with an obvious case of post-traumatic stress.

– Peter Levine, Waking the Tiger (pg. 41)

There are very few who aren’t traumatized. Very few.

– Gabor Maté, "Dr. Gabor Maté Answers the Question: Is Everyone Traumatized?" | A Mindspace Podcast Clip ¹

Interestingly, all three of these famous researchers and authors provide detail about their own personal trauma stories. Each one is quite different from the other. Their experiences land at different points across the broad spectrum of trauma:

In The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk recounts how he arrived for his first EMDR training in need of some trauma processing himself. He had recently suffered back-to-back losses of clinics, colleagues, and resources.

It might have all been a coincidence, but it felt as if my whole world was under attack.

– Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score (pg. 253)

In an interview series sponsored by PsychAlive, which you can watch on YouTube, Peter Levine recounts his personal traumatic experience of being hit by a car and allowing the shock to pass out of his body with the reassuring presence of other