Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body: 1

This book IS a great book if you have C-PTSD. He says at the start of the book that complex, or developmental trauma, is intertwined with shock trauma, and that people can heal a substantial portion of their trauma through using this book. He also says that if you have suffered complex trauma that you should use these exercises along with other kinds of therapy, to deal with the mental side of things. These exercises are very healing for complex trauma survivors, especially any issues you have with 'emotions', such as intense anxiety, rage, grief, depression, apathy. This book is excellent for working through these emotions, and these emotions often plague survivors of complex trauma. The healing exercises in this book really work, and are very healing if you suffer from C-PTSD or PTSD. They have enabled me to heal a lot of my intense emotions, such as intense anxiety, grief or pain in the heart, and some of my depression. They have also put me in touch with a wonderful sense of aliveness, and have helped me feel a deep inner strength. These changes have been awesome, and far beyond what anything else has achieved. I live with minimal anxiety, or PTSD symptoms as a result of this book. The complex aspect of my trauma, such as trust issues, confidence etc, still needs to be worked on but this book is really wonderful for anyone who has experience multiple trauma. Don't be put off by the other reviews.

Good read

Healing from trauma takes time and patience, but according to Peter Levine it can be done, and people have done it. In fact, it's an innate ability in animals to move on from trauma, but humans don't always use this ability. Trauma is intrinsic to your body as well as your mind, and there are several exercises in the book to change the way you relate to your body and move on from trauma. I'm using this in conjunction with therapy, dealing with an unstable childhood seeing a lot of chaos where people could change from happy to screaming at a drop of a hat. ( as a lot of people have also experienced). The exercises so far, I feel have been helpful to me. If you're struggling, I want to tell you there's hope out there and inside you and this book could be one of the things that helps you on your journey.

Working on the basis that trauma disconnects a person with their body, Levine proposes a series of twelve simple exercises to carry out to 'reconnect' and heal trauma. With plenty of supporting information at the beginning, the book feels to the reader who has suffered from trauma - understanding, encouraging and reassuring. This will be a valuable resource to anyone in the process of healing from past trauma, both physical and emotional, when psychological methods can be too heavily based on the mind and thinking. I am glad to have found this book, simple and small enough to carry around with practical solutions to panic. Highly recommended.

The book is written in a way easy to read by people which native language isn't English. The only thing I disliked was the CD, as it turned out we do not have CD-rom in our house. But that's my problem. The book is offering wisdom and help and it's only 100pages.

Having been to a 'working with trauma' workshop I thought I would start with this but the CD is not what I expected so may get one of Peter Levine's other books which I think will be more helpful to me.

This is a wonderful book. As a therapist I encourage my clients to get hold of this book and work through the exercises. A very safe way of working with Trauma. It is one of the best self help books that I have read. Easy to understand, simple without being simplistic. And the exercises really work !

Very good read, very interesting, Plenty to take from it.