Title:
The transformation : discovering wholeness and healing after trauma
ISBN:
9780062870711
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
viii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
An invitation -- The biology of trauma -- Soft belly: quieting mind, body, and spirit -- Embracing hope -- Shaking and dancing -- All emotions are innocent -- Only connect -- Accessing inner guidance -- Befriending your body -- The trauma-healing diet -- The wisdom of the body -- Taming trauma's triggers -- Make love, not war -- Nature heals -- Animal therapy -- Laughter breaks traumas spell -- Reading the leaves on your family tree -- The healing circle -- Gratitude changes everything -- Forgiveness -- Love, meaning, and purpose -- Next steps.
Summary:
"A world-recognized authority and acclaimed mind-body medicine pioneer presents the first evidence-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 U. S. 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. The Transformation represents the culmination of Dr. Gordon's fifty 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, The Transformation 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."
