Description
Traumatic events can leave mental and physical scars—but these scars don’t have to define you. Heal the Body, Heal the Mind takes trauma survivors on a supportive and healing journey toward well-being. By practicing the somatic exercises and mind-body interventions in this compassionate guide, you’ll learn to move past difficult experiences, restore relationships, and cultivate spiritual awareness.
When trauma occurs, the logical mind is hijacked and physiology takes over in an effort to protect you. This leaves an imprint—your body wants to ensure that nothing like that will ever happen again. Being reminded of a traumatic event can trigger these automatic responses, leaving you feeling paralyzed or unable to take action. This book will help you understand why and how unresolved trauma can infiltrate all aspects of your life, including your mind and body—even when you’re not aware of its influence.
With Heal the Body, Heal the Mind as a gentle guide, you’ll learn about different types of trauma, find helpful assessments, and discover how traumatic experiences—even childhood and incidental traumas—can affect all aspects of your life: your relationship choices, the roles you play in them, your sense of pleasure and desire, and how you approach your career, spirituality, and interactions with others.
Using the combination of mind-body interventions, cognitive behavioral theories, research, case studies, and exercises woven into each chapter of this warm-hearted, relatable book, you’ll begin to address the unresolved trauma held in your body and advance your healing process. So, if you’re ready to move beyond the trauma that’s been holding you back in your relationships, at work, and in your spiritual practice, this guide will show you how.
This opened my eyes, unlocked hidden memories, and helped me learn and overcome so much
Answered a few questions and has helped with my work
Been looking for this book, all my life. Confirms all I ever knew and who I am. Thank you so much.
This book leads you gently through steps to begin healing if you have suffered trauma by offering exercises and by using case studies as examples. For me, the book greatly expanded what I imagined trauma to be and this allowed me to begin examining my past experience with a new lens which has been very helpful in healing. Dr. Babbel’s warmth and caring is reflected in the writing and it feels like she is with you on your journey in a very open and compassionate way. I highly recommend this book as a road map to helping you begin your healing journey.
A very useful guide to trauma – the author explains clearly how trauma impacts on us, and how trauma lives on through the years. Eye-opening and enlightening. But this book is about healing, and there are both case studies and exercises, which you can do on the journey to understanding and healing.