In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness

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By Peter Levine
Trade paperback book
ISBN 9781556439438
368 pages, 6.00 x 9.00″

Combining a thorough study of animal ethnology, brain research, and indigenous healing rituals with extensive clinical knowledge, Levine provides a marvelous and original perspective on how trauma can be transformed and healed by attention to the natural healing powers that reside deep within every human being. Trauma is neither a disease nor a disorder, but rather an injury caused by fright, helplessness, and loss that can be healied by engaging our innate capacity to self-regulate high states of arousal and intense emotions. Its visionary contribution celebrates our capacity to live life robustly with pleasure and creativity in the face of the most painful assaults to our humanity, even in the face of the deceptively trivial ones, and how to help others join with us in that journey. His ideas are vast in scope, ranging from an evolutionary understanding of the source of trauma to a spiritual dimension of how we as human beings can be strengtheneed by healing from trauma.