Trauma Practice

From elementary schools to psychotherapy offices, mindfulness meditation is an increasingly mainstream practice. At the same time, trauma remains a fact of life. Drawing on a decade of research and clinical experience, psychotherapist and educator David Treleaven shows that mindfulness meditation - practiced without an awareness of trauma - can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. This raises a crucial question: How can we minimize the potential dangers of mindfulness for survivors while leveraging its powerful benefits?

A transformative and accessible path to profound emotional healing. While many mental health books draw on secular mindfulness, Buddhist Practices for Healing Trauma offers something deeper: a comprehensive healing path grounded in the full breadth of Buddhist wisdom. Drawing from ancient sutras...

What if addiction, dissociation, and other manifestations of trauma were not framed as diseases or disorders, but rather as adaptive methods of regulating the autonomic nervous system (ANS)? This book takes that approach, and guides listeners through twenty embodied practices that promote the rewiring of the ANS. By integrating the latest neuroscience from Stephen Porges's Polyvagal Theory with Eugene Gendlin's embodied felt sense, Jan Winhall's Felt Sense Polyvagal Model is a paradigm-shifting, deeply somatic approach to healing trauma and addiction.

A tell-all guide to help you get through the process of divorcing a narcissist. Do you feel you’re in a toxic relationship with a narcissist? Are you tired of the controlling behavior, manipulation, and gaslighting? Do you want to take the first steps to break free but are unsure how to navigate the legal, emotional, and practical challenges accompanying these processes and emotions? This is your guidebook to reclaiming your life and putting an end to this relationship. This book will take you through a journey of healing by helping you recognize the emotional toll the relationship has ...

An essential work that centers colonial and historical trauma in a framework for healing, Decolonizing Therapy illuminates that all therapy is—and always has been—inherently political. To better understand the mental health oppression and institutional violence that exists today, we must become familiar with the root of disembodiment from our histories, homelands, and healing practices. Only then will listeners see how colonial, historical, and intergenerational legacies have always played a role in the treatment of mental health.

Traumatic experiences leave a “living legacy” of effects that often persist for years and decades after the events are over. Historically, it has always been assumed that retelling the story of what happened would resolve these effects. However, survivors report a different experience...

You have tried the vision boards. The affirmations. The scripting. The 369 method. And yet something keeps getting in the way. This book is for you if: • You finally receive the money... and immediately start looking for reasons to spend it. • You want to be seen, but every time it's time to post, launch, speak up, or promote yourself, something inside you pulls back. • You say you want love, but when someone gets close, you suddenly find reasons why it won't work. • Someone offers support and your first instinct is to say, “No, it's okay. I've got it.” • You achieve a goal ...

“A grand accomplishment.” —Dr. Peter Levine, developer of Somatic Experiencing and author of Waking the Tiger and In an Unspoken Voice A body-based, science-backed method for regulating behavior, thoughts, and feelings and improving well-being--shown to shorten therapy time and improve...

An exploration of the transformative power of storytelling Therapy is about storytelling. The therapeutic session provides a safe space for clients' stories to unfold and become transformed. Here, Hugo Kamya draws from his own upbringing in Uganda, where stories were woven into everyday life for...

A Mystical Approach to Healing TraumaTo heal trauma, we have to start with its origin: disconnection from spiritual experience. This is the breakthrough premise of Transforming Trauma, Caroline Myss and James Finley's first audio-learning course on how combining contemplative and clinical...

If you are a man that wishes to become more grounded and present—in relationship, socially, or at work—then this is the audiobook for you. It will show you how this is possible through the daily practice of Youngblood's specially designed embodiment exercises.

Five years in the making—the powerful follow-up to Maslow Before Bloom: Basic Human Needs Before Academics. What if school wasn’t just about achievement… but about becoming? In Maslow Before Bloom… Then Gardner, Jung & Goleman: Educating the Whole Child With Needs, Strengths, Meaning & Emotional Intelligence, Dr. Bryan Pearlman invites educators, counselors, and leaders to reimagine what it truly means to help students thrive. Building on the truth that kids can’t learn if they don’t feel safe, seen, or supported, this book goes beyond Maslow to explore how we help students grow...

Activating the body’s natural healing processes has been proven to lift the oppressive effects of trauma—PTSD, chronic tension, pain, irritability, difficulty in relationships, and a lackluster daily experience. In this volume, practitioner and worldwide trainer Giten Tonkov expands on successful body-based, trauma-release therapies to teach average people how to break the trauma cycle, improve relationships, and achieve healthier, more fulfilling day-to-day lives.

You've done the therapy. You've journaled. You've visualized your inner child in a golden light. And the wound is still there — in your chest, your gut, your clenched jaw at 2 AM. Because you've been healing in the wrong language. Your inner child is not a metaphor. It is a literal nervous system configuration — encoded in your cells between ages 0 and 7, before you had language, before you had choice. It cannot be healed through conversation, because it was never stored in words. It was stored in your body. In the tension you carry. In the breath you hold. In the patterns you cannot ...

What if the student dysregulation you are managing is not a behavior problem, but a design flaw? Most classroom management strategies focus on controlling students, but very few teach you how to design an environment where neurodivergent learners can actually thrive. If you are tired of modifying lessons on the fly, battling student refusal, and feeling like the weight of a heavy system rests entirely on your shoulders, it is because it does. The problem is not your effort. It is the architecture of the classroom. In Designing for Belonging, education leader Geraldine Doornkamp provides an ...

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...

A practical guide to the 5 pillars of embodied Internal Family Systems—tools and exercises for healing trauma "McConnell is an expert guide to learning to listen to somatic stories and finding the way to Embodied Self."—Deb Dana, LCSW, author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy on Somatic...

Embrace your innate power and find growth from trauma with this essential guide filled with groundbreaking solutions and strategies for your healing journey. Amid collective trauma, it helps to know that our bodies are built to respond to stress and what we might do to shift those reflexes...

The Flowering War is a companion, a guide, and a roadmap for those individuals, those that have carried too much and been seen too little, those that have an incredible gift that, when untended, can become a devastating burden. It is for those that I’ve come to know as “Griefbearers,” the potential healers of generations of untended wounds and accumulated trauma. It is for those that have lost their way in bearing this burden but somehow, miraculously, keep going. It is for those would-be healers, consumed by self-criticism and self-doubt.

Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault provides a comprehensive overview of how to offer yoga to survivors of sexual assault in a safe, effective, evidence-based, and healing way. Zahabiyah A. Yamasaki, founder of Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga, draws on the framework of trauma-informed care and trauma-informed yoga program development and curriculum, while also weaving in personal narrative and inspiring survivor stories.