Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program For Restoring The Wisdom Of Your Body [Paperback]

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. Today, professionals and clients in both the bodywork and the psychotherapeutic fields nationwide are turning to Peter A. Levine's breakthrough Somatic Experiencing? methods to actively overcome these challenges.InHealing Trauma,Dr. Levine gives you the personal how-to guide for using the theory he first introduced in his highly acclaimed workWaking the Tiger.Join him to discover: how to develop body awareness to renegotiate and heal traumas by revisiting them rather than reliving them; emergency first-aid measures for times of distress; and nature's lessons for uncovering the physiological roots of your emotions.

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 sourcethe bodyto return us to the natural state in which we are meant to live

Includes 12 guided Somatic Experiencing? exercises.

Peter A. Levine
Peter A. Levine, PhD, has spent 45 years studying and treating stress and trauma. He holds a doctorate degree in medical biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley and in psychology from International University. He is the developer of Somatic Experiencing?, a naturalistic approach to healing trauma. He has practiced and taught at treatment centers, hospitals, and pain clinics throughout the world, and has dealt with a wide range of trauma, including accidents, rapes, assaults, abuse, and invasive medical procedures. Peter was a stress consultant for NASA during the development of the Space Shuttle program. He served with the Institute for World Affairs Task Force for Psychologists for Sociall“W