Healing Trauma

Healing Trauma

A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body

By Peter A. Levine

A compassionate and practical guide to understanding and healing trauma through the body, based on the groundbreaking Somatic Experiencing® approach developed by renowned trauma specialist Peter A. Levine.

Description

In Healing Trauma, Dr. Levine offers an accessible and empowering introduction to the body-based healing principles first introduced in his acclaimed work Waking the Tiger. Drawing on decades of research and clinical experience, he explains how trauma affects the nervous system and how unresolved survival responses can lead to symptoms such as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, fatigue, emotional overwhelm, and harmful behavioural patterns.

Rather than reliving traumatic experiences, Levine’s Somatic Experiencing® approach focuses on gently helping the body “renegotiate” trauma through awareness, safety, and nervous system regulation.

This practical guide includes exercises, techniques, and supportive tools designed to help individuals reconnect with their bodies and restore resilience, balance, and wellbeing.

Key Themes

• Trauma and nervous system healing
• Somatic awareness and body-based recovery
• Emotional regulation and resilience
• Understanding fight, flight, freeze, and overwhelm
• Compassionate approaches to healing trauma

What You’ll Discover

• How trauma becomes stored within the body
• Practical exercises for self-regulation and healing
• Emergency “first-aid” tools for distressing moments
• Insights into childhood trauma, medical trauma, and everyday overwhelm
• The relationship between trauma, spirituality, and awakening

Why You’ll Love It

• Gentle, accessible, and deeply compassionate
• Practical tools for everyday healing and self-awareness
• Valuable for both personal healing and professional practice
• A foundational resource in modern trauma recovery work

A powerful reminder that while trauma may be part of human experience, healing and restoration are also deeply natural capacities within us.

Book Details

• Paperback
• Approximately 216 pages
• Dimensions: approximately 22.9 × 15.2 × 1.5 cm