Peter Levine is the groundbreaking creator of Somatic Experiencing Therapy, a body based approach to treating trauma, PTSD, and anxiety through the body's innate ability to heal.

In this book review I summarize how Dr. Peter Levine observed the way trauma and fear get trapped in the body in an unresolved fight/flight/freeze response and how he uses those physiological responses to fear, danger, and trauma to heal the body and mind from a deep core level.

This is one of the books I recommend most for my clients, and it is helpful for treating PTSD, anxiety disorders, and many physical symptoms related to trauma.

Peter Levine is also the author of Waking the Tiger, another excellent, though longer, book that teaches the principles of somatic experiencing therapy.

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About Me:
I’m Emma McAdam. I’m a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and I have worked in various settings of change and growth since 2004. My experience includes juvenile corrections, adventure therapy programs, wilderness therapy programs, an eating disorder treatment center, a residential treatment center, and I currently work in an outpatient therapy clinic.

In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a biopsychosocial approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mindbody connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction.
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