Body-first healing : get unstuck and recover from trauma with somatic healing
Brittany Piper
- New York Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2025
- xv, 304 pages 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (283-289) and index.
Introduction: From concrete bottom to resilience and healing -- Part I How and why trauma lives in the body. Healing with a body-first approach -- The top-down and bottom-up approaches for trauma -- Defining trauma -- Traumatic memory -- The nervous system 101 : why you make sense -- How your childhood attachment inform your adult relationships -- The armor of trauma and the five stuck personalities -- Healthy aggression and life force : rising into your power -- Part II Somatic experience roadmaps. Somatic experiencing basics -- Self-guided experiencing : before you being -- Anger and the armor of flight -- Fear, anxiety, and the armor of flight -- Depression, burnout, and the armor of shutdown -- Dissociation and the armor of functional freeze -- Appeasement and the armor of fawn -- Resourcing for common health issues and everyday triggers -- Conclusion: Let the wild rumpus start -- Appendix A: Nervous system mapping and tracking -- Appendix B: How to find a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner -- Appendix C: References -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
"Somatic and trauma-trained practitioner and social media personality Brittany Piper guides readers through body-based trauma therapy that helps heal and regulate your nervous system"--
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Mind and body therapies. Psychic trauma--Alternative treatment. Post-traumatic stress disorder--Alternative treatment. Self-Help--Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Psychology--Mental Health Psychology--Psychotherapy