Book description
From elementary schools to psychotherapy offices, mindfulness meditation is an increasingly mainstream practice. At the same time, trauma remains a fact of life: the majority of us will experience a traumatic event in our lifetime and up to 20% of us will develop posttraumatic stress. This means that anywhere mindfulness…
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1 author picked Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Again and again, I had the experience of clients seeking out meditation and mindfulness practices to relieve their trauma symptoms–only to see those clients come undone by the very thing they thought would help. I struggled to find resources that would help them understand how they could access those powerful tools of transformation without having their symptoms exacerbated.
This book completely eliminated that struggle for me. The relief I felt when I first read this book was profound: I had found the safety net for my clients I had been longing for. It has everything in it that I would…
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