Bessel van der Kolk’s podcast conversation with Krista Tippett and his bestselling book The Body Keeps the Score approach trauma and its numerous therapies from an embodied and open-minded perspective. Balancing scientific research with descriptions of specific therapeutic modalities, van der Kolk’s work considers how trauma impacts the brain and body in quantifiable, long term ways—but how these changes are also plastic and can be remade. Although van der Kolk can be a divisive figure in psychological circles, his synthetic overview of current approaches to trauma therapy is wide ranging in scope and a useful overview. It offers a starting point for understanding the contemporary scientific work of healing and how it begins with the body.