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Your body never forgot. You just stopped listening to it.

by Matthew Zoltan, co-creator of the Undo APP

Why memory is not a thought — and why that changes everything about how trauma is healed.

There is a moment, early in my work with people, when something shifts. Not in their understanding of what happened to them, but in how they are experiencing themselves right now, in the room, as we sit together.

They stop trying to remember. And they start to feel.

Most of us have been taught, by therapy, by culture, by well-meaning people, that the path through trauma is to go back to what happened, understand it, process it, and eventually make peace with it. Tell the story often enough, the thinking goes, and we’ll stop being haunted by it.

But here is what nearly forty years of working with people has shown me: the story is not where trauma lives.

Trauma is not a memory you can recall. It is a memory your body never let go of.

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Are you struggling with your handwriting? 

I’ve never been happy with my handwriting. Well, sometimes yes I was, and yet it varied, sometimes moment by moment, usually day by day, and week by week. 

I was thinking back about this, and I thought it would be good to have better handwriting. For me, it’s been a problem, because of my perception of my handwriting being poor, I wrote less and less and ended up using the computers more and more, which in itself, is a problem. 

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Mo Gawdat’s Happiness Formula: Retrain Your Brain to Be Happy Now

Is happiness a choice?  And if so, can it be engineered?  Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer of Google X and founder of One Billion Happy, believes this is true.  In fact, he’s used his three decades of success in the tech industry to engineer his very own “happiness algorithm” to help all of us achieve this mind frame.

Gawdat began his mission to conquer happiness after experiencing the ultimate tragedy.  In 2014, Mo suddenly lost his beloved son, Ali, which thrust him into depression and an existential reckoning with life’s fragility. Rather than succumbing to this ultimate despair, Gawdat turned his grief into a catalyst for transformation. He soon embarked on a profound journey of self-discovery and healing, driven by a newfound mission to spread happiness and well-being to the world.

Drawing from his personal experience and extensive research, Mo has authored the international bestseller “Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy” and continues to champion his message of happiness to millions worldwide. Via his writing, speaking engagements, and podcast, Gawdat offers practical tools and strategies for finding joy in the face of adversity.Mo’s commitment to spreading happiness has touched millions of lives.  He continues to inspire people from all walks of life to embrace happiness as a fundamental choice, as well as empower them to engineer their own paths to fulfillment.