Body Theory

Discover the Secret to Personal Excellence Hidden in Your “Mind-Body Code” You may know that your mind influences your health—but what's influencing your mind? Until you answer this question, you may be overlooking a key factor on the path to personal excellence. On The Mind-Body Code...

A Life-Changing Collection for Deep Healing, Self-Regulation, and Lasting Transformation Struggling with anxiety, stress, or emotional overwhelm? Imagine waking up tomorrow feeling calm, grounded, and in control, without years of therapy, endless coping strategies, or feeling stuck in survival mode. This comprehensive collection brings together two highly acclaimed books—The Somatic Therapy Handbook and The Polyvagal Theory Handbook—to provide you with a science-backed, practical path to healing from within.

Applied polyvagal theory in yoga provides conscious breathing, vagal toning, mindful movement, and meditation practices that aid in rewiring the nervous system. Listeners will discover how to help both clients and themselves cultivate a felt sense of ease during times of safety; enhance their capacity to handle challenges with equanimity; and reclaim their ability to recover from stress swiftly and efficiently. Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga offers practitioners a new and effective way to support clients who are stuck in a trauma response mode.

The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma offers evidence-based activities to help you heal the effects of trauma, rewire your nervous system, and return to a state of balance and calm. You'll begin by getting to know your nervous system, including an exploration of polyvagal theory and the vagus nerve. You'll also learn soothing, body-based practices to help you rewire your nervous response, including rhythmic movements (EMDR and tapping), conscious breathing, mindful movement, and more. 

Unlock lasting healing through the power of the vagus nerve—the bestselling guide to understanding how vagus nerve dysfunction and trauma impact inflammation, emotional health, autoimmune disease, and more With practical exercises and body-based tools for regulating your nervous system...

Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Miller shows how a child's humiliation, impotence, and bottled rage will manifest itself as adult illness - be it cancer, stroke, or other debilitating diseases.

Your bank account is a printout of your nervous system's financial encoding. You've done the affirmations. The vision boards. The money mindset work. You've read the books, attended the seminars, followed the strategies. You understand abundance intellectually. So why hasn't your bank account changed? Because the problem was never in your mindset. It was in your nervous system — encoded before you could count to ten, stored in the tissue of your solar plexus, your gut, and your throat, and broadcasting a scarcity frequency that no amount of affirming, budgeting, or hustling can override. ...

A Tai Chi instructor for over 40 years, Dr. Frank Bisceglia, EdD, explains how to incorporate the mysterious Metaphysical elixir of Yin and Yang into your practice and daily existence.Along with addressing many of the fundamental physical techniques, Dr. Bisceglia reveals how to transform Tai Chi into a unique, fulfilling and worthwhile exercise by incorporating the theories that unite the practical and spiritual elements of this ancient Art. His insightful commentary and inspirational view provide a path for illuminating one’s connection to the universe and the marvel of its’ impact on...

*With a foreword from Tim Keller* A bold vision for Christians who want to engage the world in a way that is biblically faithful and culturally sensitive. In Biblical Critical Theory, Christopher Watkin shows how the Bible and its unfolding story help us make sense of modern life and culture...

The Fantasmatic Sex introduces what can be understood as a third pathway of sexuality: neither driven by compulsive discharge nor governed by affective attachment. In this third volume of The Pathways of Sex, psychoanalyst Deivede Eder Ferreira situates fantasmatic sexuality between The Empty Sex and The Loving Sex. Here, sexuality is not organized around relief, nor around proof of love, but around embodied fantasy—a structured erotic scene in which desire circulates without demand. In this pathway, pleasure is organized rather than compulsive, intimacy can be intense without becoming ...

Discover the innovative intersection of somatic therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS), featuring 5 core practices to transform modern therapeutic approaches. Enhance your clinical practice and patient outcomes by skillfully uniting body and mind through an evidence-based therapeutic...

You keep hearing about fight-or-flight, dorsal shutdown, ventral safety, and nervous-system regulation, but when you try to apply it to your own life, it still feels fuzzy. Maybe you swing between anxious urgency and total shutdown. Maybe you overthink, overprepare, disappear under pressure, or go numb when simple things should feel manageable. Maybe somatic tools sound promising, but nobody has explained why one thing helps on one day and does nothing on another. This book turns polyvagal theory into plain-English guidance you can actually use. You will learn how your nervous system reads ...

Like many, you may be seeking concrete solutions to transform anxiety, trauma, and emotional turmoil into a harmonious and fulfilling life. The traditional methods you've tried might not have been enough to address your deep-rooted challenges. But imagine a world where you embrace a calmer mind and a rejuvenated spirit, all achieved through groundbreaking, science-backed approaches. That's now possible.

Do you shut down during difficult conversations? Freeze when you know what to say? Feel anxious over small things, people-please until exhausted, or struggle to relax when everything seems fine? Maybe you have spent years trying to understand yourself. You may have explored anxiety, trauma, attachment, emotional triggers, therapy, journaling, meditation, podcasts, or self-help. Some of it may have helped, but in the moment, it can still feel as though your body takes over. You are not broken. Your nervous system has been doing what it was designed to do: protect you.

""A pleasure. ... Suitable for beach reading or for mainlining before a dinner party."" —Dan Piepenbring, New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) ""Absorbing. ... As thoughtfully written as it is nuts."" —Chicago Tribune A collection of the world’s most mind-boggling...

Unlock a Relaxed Body and Mind in Just 28 Days - Say Goodbye to Stress and Trauma Without Overwhelm! Does the weight of stored trauma keep you from feeling comfortable in your own skin? Are you constantly battling anxieties, unsure of how to release years of pent-up stress? Imagine a life where you can find relief and comfort, where the burden of trauma is lifted, and you can truly thrive. Have you tried various self-help methods and therapy sessions, only to feel overwhelmed and disconnected from your own body? Have you avoided traditional talk therapy because you don’t want to dwell on ...

You handled it. You always handle it. And your body is exhausted. The tight chest. The jaw you clench without noticing. The shoulders that never fully come down. The nights when sleep arrives but rest doesn't. The version of you that holds it together in every room — and falls apart when no one is watching. This is not weakness. This is a nervous system that learned to stay braced — and was never given the tools to come back down. Nervous System Reset for Black Women gives you a practical, body-based path back to yourself: simple tools to calm your nervous system, regulate your emotions...

The premise of Trauma and the Body is that, by adding body-oriented interventions to their repertoire, traditionally trained therapists can increase the depth and efficacy of their clinical work. Sensorimotor psychotherapy is an approach that builds on traditional psychotherapeutic understanding but includes the body as central in the therapeutic field of awareness, using observational skills, theories, and interventions not usually practiced in psychodynamic psychotherapy.   

The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Biblical Critical Theory Audio Lectures, Part 1 includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover the...

01011001 01101111... This is how the message arrives. Not with a greeting, but with a death sentence, decoded by SETI from a tightbeam transmission in 2025. It is the first hint that humanity is not alone. It is the last warning they will ever receive. It began with ‘Oumuamua. The anomalous interstellar object that tumbled through our solar system in 2017, a splinter in the mind of science. Was it a natural phenomenon, or something else? The world’s astronomers debated, while a few lone voices in the intelligence community and academia warned it was a scout. They were dismissed as ...