Transforming Trauma

The Path to Hope and Healing

By: James S. Gordon

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins

Publisher's summary

A world-recognized authority and acclaimed mind-body medicine pioneer presents the first evidenced-based program to reverse the psychological and biological damage caused by trauma.

In his role as the founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), the worlds largest and most effective program for healing population-wide trauma, Harvard-trained psychiatrist James Gordon has taught a curriculum that has alleviated trauma to populations as diverse as refugees and survivors of war in Bosnia, Kosovo, Israel, Gaza, and Syria, as well as Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, New York city firefighters and their families, and members of the US military. Dr. Gordon and his team have also used their work to help middle class professionals, stay-at-home mothers, inner city children of color, White House officials, medical students, and people struggling with severe emotional and physical illnesses. 

Transforming Trauma represents the culmination of Dr. Gordon’s 50 years as a mind-body medicine pioneer and an advocate of integrative approaches to overcoming psychological trauma and stress. Offering inspirational stories, eye-opening research, and innovative prescriptive support, Transforming Trauma makes accessible for the first time the methods that Dr. Gordon - with the help of his faculty of 160, and 6,000 trained clinicians, educators, and community leaders - has developed and used to relieve the suffering of hundreds of thousands of adults and children around the world.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 James S. Gordon (P)2019 HarperAudio

incredible work

I absolutely love this book. I wish I could buy it for everyone I know. As a psychology student studying trauma, this book does an incredible job combining engaging narrative, current research, and a mindful approach to the phenomenology of trauma.

Highly educational and greatly needed!

There are so many complimentary and additional treatments out there that can really help people with depression and trauma recovery. Whether that's acute trauma from a horrifying experience or chronic trauma from ongoing stress, loss, and devastation. I'm so glad to see academic researchers and medical doctors weighing in with their experiences and revealing the research for the many ways people can heal. Great appendix, as well. Dozens upon dozens of different therapies and reasons to hope!

Outstanding Information

As a physician who uses integrative medicine this book is wonderful for anyone to help with self-care tools. I will highly recommend this to my patience in my practice and my colleagues to utilize. I’m grateful to Dr. Gordon for the time he took to put together his many years of knowledge that will forever change our field of healthcare.

Must Read for Trauma Survival

This book is filled with relevant information for anyone who has experienced any sort of trauma.

Learning the Affects of Long-TermStress

A Most interesting discussion of our brains and the long/term affects of Stress on our lives and how this is passed down to future generations!

PDF

Excellent , very informative. I highly recommend this book. Where can I find the pdf supplement ?

Thoughtful, thorough, and compassionate

Transformation is an inspiring book grounded in experience and research. It is full of stories and useful practices . The narration was clear and well paced.

Fresh perspective and knowledgeable insight on a grueling topic

With knowledge and experience studying trauma and helping those who have suffered far too long after devastating loss first hand, Dr. James Gordon gently walks readers through the newest, most effective and scientifically proven strategies in healing significant trauma that our human bodies hold on to far too long past the incidence itself.

This book is for those who are able to think with both their left and right brain - science + spirituality meet in the genius writings of James Gordon.

Praise and gratitude to those like Dr. Gordon who have invested their heart and soul into demystifying the effects trauma has on those who have experienced it. This book offers simple techniques for healing and allows readers to undo the shackles from their past and move forward freely.

Triggering content!

there are a ton of triggering Burbage throughout this book for a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and trauma. The mere choice of words is astonishing to me because these words alone are triggering. There were several sections I had to fast forward through, although I did find the nutritional, breathing, and meditation sections helpful.