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Books

Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover From Trauma by Elizabeth Stanley

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May 3, 2022 —

This book explains the connection between stress, trauma, and how our body and mind reacts to them. It also presents ways we can improve our ability to perform under stress and develop routines that allow for recovery. These techniques help “widen the window” where our thinking brain and survival brain can work effectively together during stressful and uncertain circumstances.  Although this book is helpful for Coasties under normal circumstances in dealing with the day-to-day stressors of life, work, operations, and deployments, the additional stressor of the COVID-19 pandemic makes this book even more applicable to the physical and mental health and well-being of our workforce and their families.


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