Arielle Schwartz
Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
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drarielleschwartz.comBlog Her site and blog: EMDR, somatic psychology, polyvagal theory and complex PTSD.
Long essays a few times a year, and the reason to read her: she is an EMDR and somatic clinician who argues in public with her own field — defending polyvagal theory against the 2026 "untenable" critique, and agreeing that the body does not literally store trauma.
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- Clinical Reflections on the Critique on Polyvagal Theory proposed by Grossman et al., (2026) 2 Mar 2026
- Let Your Body Hold You 25 May 2025
- The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma 16 Feb 2025
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- Brain and Body Integration for Trauma Recovery 21 Aug 2024
- The Post-Traumatic Growth Deck | Dr. Arielle Schwartz 8 Aug 2024
- Embodied Self-Compassion 28 May 2024
- Beyond Trauma Retreat: A Guided Journey of Resilience, Hope and Growth 3 May 2024
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The body is not an archive of trauma: what feels like a memory stored in the hips or the jaw is a mind-body feedback loop, and the loop is what therapy interrupts.
It may not be stored there, but what you're tapping into, it's not a repository of the memory, but it's part of this mind-body feedback loop where there's a sensation that your brain has an association to that might have a familiarity to a time in which you felt sad or scared.
If the Body Doesn't Keep the Score, What Does? Said 25 Aug 2026
"The body keeps the score" is only half the story, and the missing half matters: a body described only as a harbinger of the past is a body people learn to avoid.
the issue that I take with some of the language around "the body keeps the score" is that it maybe doesn't also recognize that the body also carries so much wisdom and so much intelligence and kind of helps guide us towards healing
If the Body Doesn't Keep the Score, What Does? Said 25 Aug 2026
Polyvagal theory survives the 2026 "untenable" critique: what the critics contested was mechanism and evolutionary framing, not the clinical proposition.
The central clinical proposition of polyvagal theory-that autonomic state functions as an organizing platform shaping perception, emotion, and relational behavior-was not empirically disproven in the critique.
Clinical Reflections on the Critique on Polyvagal Theory proposed by Grossman et al., (2026) Said 2 Mar 2026
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Regulation must precede reflection: cognitive insight fails while a nervous system is in defensive dominance.
Polyvagal theory provided me with a coherent framework for understanding why cognitive insight alone often fails when a nervous system is in defensive dominance. In such states, higher-order cortical processes are functionally constrained.
Clinical Reflections on the Critique on Polyvagal Theory proposed by Grossman et al., (2026) Said 2 Mar 2026
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- "The body keeps the score" is only half the story, and the missing half matters: a body described only as a harbinger of the past is a body people learn to avoid. 25 Aug
- The body is not an archive of trauma: what feels like a memory stored in the hips or the jaw is a mind-body feedback loop, and the loop is what therapy interrupts. 25 Aug
- Clinical Reflections on the Critique on Polyvagal Theory proposed by Grossman et al., (2026) 2 Mar
- Let Your Body Hold You 25 May 2025
- The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma 16 Feb 2025
- Brain and Body Integration for Trauma Recovery 21 Aug 2024
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