Breaking Free from Trauma's Grip: The Power of Somatic Therapy with Peter Levine

Key Takeaways:

• Trauma is not just what happens to us but what we hold inside in the absence of empathetic support.
• Somatic Experiencing provides a gentle and embodied approach to healing, contrasting methods that retraumatize by forcing people to relive their experiences.
• The "wounded healer" archetype highlights the importance of therapists addressing their own trauma to support others effectively.
• Safe relationships are essential for working through trauma, including the echoes of betrayal that can show up in new interactions.
• Healing involves acknowledging trauma, processing it through embodied experiences, and integrating it into the past where it belongs.
• Somatic Experiencing has grown into a global movement, taught in over 40 countries, empowering countless practitioners to help others heal.
• Vulnerability and shared experiences can deepen understanding and foster greater empathy in the journey of healing

Dr. Peter Levine:

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