Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body
Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body
Researchers have shown that survivors of accidents, disaster, and childhood trauma often endure lifelong symptoms ranging from anxiety and depression to unexplained physical pain, fatigue, illness, and harmful “acting out” behaviors reflecting these painful events. Today, millions in both the bodywork and the psychotherapeutic fields are turning to Peter A. Levine’s breakthrough Somatic Experiencing(tm) methods to effectively overcome these challenges. Now available in paperback for the first time, Healing Trauma offers readers the personal how-to guide for using the theory Dr. Levine first introduced in his highly acclaimed work Waking the Tiger (North Atlantic Books, 1997), including: * How to develop body awareness to “re-negotiate” and heal traumas–rather than relive them * Emergency “first-aid” measures for emotional distress * A 60-minute CD of guided Somatic Experiencing techniques “Trauma is a fact of life,” teaches Peter Levine, “but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence.” Now, with one fully integrated self-healing tool, he shares his essential methods to address unexplained symptoms of trauma at their source–the body–to return us to the natural state we are meant to live in.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Illumining a Path of Healing
Everything I know and have experienced about trauma, meditation and the healing process has been magnified a thousand fold in reading Peter Levine’s book, Healing Trauma. One of the most helpful aspects of this book is that it is a short-read, and is written in simple language with an accompanying CD of exercises. The author walks you through a step by step process, clearly and resonantly illumining the path of, “Restoring the wisdom of your body.”
5 Stars Everyone should read this book!
even if you don’t think you have experienced “trauma” you have and everyone should read this book. it’s an easy read and comes with a cd
5 Stars Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body
This is an excellent book for professionals working in the area of mental and emotional health who want to better understand trauma and it effects, and how to work with people to support them in releasing trauma. It is easy to read and understand, is very well researched and has a step by step process for healing trauma. It is the most informed book I have read on this topic that has minimal information and understanding in the area of health, and in society in general. It is written with compassion and understanding of the complex experience of trauma and if someone working in the health field, or a client asks me about an easy to read and most helpful book to assist their understanding of the experience and healing process of trauma this would be the first book that would come to my mind. Peter Levine has presented a ground breaking piece of work that will make a difference for anyone who wants to heal their trauma or support others through the healing process. If you work in this field I believe it is essential reading and I thank Peter Levine for sharing his knowledge and wisdom.
5 Stars Excellent and worthwhile
Bought this book and as an adult survivor of childhood abuse found this book extremely helpful. It was especially good in helping with body memories and re-establishing protective boundaries - both integral to the ongoing healing process. Highly recommended.
5 Stars This is an awesome book and CD on Trauma recovery
Since I have discovered Dr. Levine’s books, (and Dr. Robert Scaer’s book on Trauma) I have been able to
understand what happens in the body in the process of trauma, and each time I read another book on this topic,
it makes it easier to cope, to heal, to understand….this is one of the best ones, plus having the CD with it,
with exercises to do, just adds to its effectiveness. Thank you Dr. Peter Levine, for your excellent book that will
aid in recovery of thousands (millions?) of people!
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