Sleep is essential for healing and wellbeing. During your sleep your body gets to regenerate, heal, detox, recover from the day. Cell regeneration, promoted by the so-called “growth hormone” mostly happens during the REM phase of your sleep, which is the deepest sleep and the time you are dreaming. Under normal circumstances, your brain processes your day and everything that happened during your sleep. It makes new connections and transforms negative thoughts and sensations into lessons learned during the deep sleep phase (called REM). But why is sleep an issue when you’ve made traumatic experiences? And what is the role of sleep in trauma recovery?
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