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Highlights
- "In The Embodied Healing Workbook, Dr. Cook-Cottone provides a toolkit with easy-to-follow exercises that enable us to be safe enough to honor and explore our bodily feelings.
- Benjamin Franklin Award (Body/Mind/Spirit) 2024 3rd Winner
- About the Author: Catherine Cook-Cottone, PhD, C-IAYT, is a psychologist, certified yoga therapist, and professor at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), specializing in embodied self-regulation, trauma, and psychosocial disorders.
- 358 Pages
- Psychology, Psychopathology
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About the Book
The way out is in. Trauma can change the way you feel about, and in, your body. During a traumatic experience, your body tries to keep you safe, courageously and imperfectly attempting to manage the unmanageable by working to separate you from danger and pain. Even if you understand why something happened, how it happened, and what to do if it happens again, it can still be difficult to move on because your body remembers - and it reminds you again and again through deeply physical symptoms. Considering this, your body may be your most valuable resource in recovery. In this workbook, renowned trauma therapist Catherine Cook-Cottone provides a step-by-step, sequential process for embodied healing that will teach you to work through your trauma, reconnect to your body, and begin thinking about what is next in your embodied path forward. Filled with over 100 embodied practices, worksheets, and meditations, you'll learn how to: - Befriend your body and build your inner resources for healing - Be with and work with your trauma memories and symptoms - Work with difficult sensations, emotions, cognitions, and reactions in partnership with your body - Reconnect to your body's wisdom - Listen to your body and heart with love and compassion - Be in relationship with your trauma True healing comes from reconnecting with your body. It is courageous work that requires commitment and practice over time to create a new way of being. By taking this journey, healing is possible.Book Synopsis
"In The Embodied Healing Workbook, Dr. Cook-Cottone provides a toolkit with easy-to-follow exercises that enable us to be safe enough to honor and explore our bodily feelings. Through this journey, an awareness of feelings emerges that both honors and respects the body's foundational survival reactions and frees the individual to express a more resilient and flexible strategy with others." --Stephen Porges, PhD, author of The Polyvagal Theory and Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory
The way out is in.
Trauma can change the way you feel about, and in, your body. During a traumatic experience, your body tries to keep you safe, courageously and imperfectly attempting to manage the unmanageable by working to separate you from danger and pain. Even if you understand why something happened, how it happened, and what to do if it happens again, it can still be difficult to move on because your body remembers--and it reminds you again and again through deeply physical symptoms.
Considering this, your body may be your most valuable resource in recovery.
In this workbook, renowned trauma therapist Catherine Cook-Cottone provides a step-by-step, sequential process for embodied healing that will teach you to work through your trauma, reconnect to your body, and begin thinking about what is next in your embodied path forward.
Filled with over 100 embodied practices, worksheets, and meditations, you'll learn how to:
- Befriend your body and build your inner resources for healing
- Be with and work with your trauma memories and symptoms
- Work with difficult sensations, emotions, cognitions, and reactions in partnership with your body
- Reconnect to your body's wisdom
- Listen to your body and heart with love and compassion
- Be in relationship with your trauma
True healing comes from reconnecting with your body. It is courageous work that requires commitment and practice over time to create a new way of being. By taking this journey, healing is possible.
Review Quotes
"In an approachable, innovative, and masterful way, Dr. Cook-Cottone gives voice to the often silenced and ignored holder of trauma--the body. She brilliantly supports readers in discovering their body's intentions, needs, and inner resources, providing a roadmap for embarking safely on the journey within and finding one's way home through the body. Through science-backed strategies, loving yet practical instruction, and a wealth of reflective and experiential practices, she shows readers how to uncover their inner resources and transform their relationship with themselves after trauma. This workbook is informed by decades of Cook-Cottone's personal wisdom and experience as a psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and researcher. If there was one guide to trauma healing from a body-based perspective that I would recommend, this would be it." --Esther E. E. Estey, PhD, psychologist and senior instructor at Harvard Medical School and the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion
-"Speaking from professional and personal experience, the legacy of posttraumatic problems is a miserable, unhealthy, and stultifying mixture of Eriksonian developmental problems: mistrust, shame, doubt, guilt, inferiority, isolation, disintegration, stagnation, and despair. Each of these self-defeating, self-perpetuating experiences, let alone their negative effects on each other, is grounded in and expressed through disconnections with the vitality, power, and wisdom of one's body. It all feels hopeless. In The Embodied Healing Workbook, Dr. Cook-Cottone demonstrates that there is more than hope, that it is possible to be with and honor this great ball of negativity and take specific steps to transform your relationships with your body, the people in your life, and your potential for connection, joy, and meaning. I suspect you are thinking that in order to do this you would need, somehow, to find a guide who understands trauma and who is also compassionate, knowledgeable, flexible, patient, experienced, extremely skilled, encouraging, and trustworthy. Moreover, this guide would need, somehow, to offer specific steps you can take to escape the black hole of trauma while providing the wisdom and other support necessary for you to move between the fundamental human needs for safety/comfort and challenge/growth. Believe me, I know and feel in my head and heart this pessimistic skepticism. And I know we need look no further than Dr. Cook-Cottone and The Embodied Healing Workbook to find this guide." --Michael P. Levine, PhD, fellow, Academy for Eating Disorders
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"As signals of threat permeate our world, we become aware of the need to feel safe enough in our body to function successfully in both our work and social environments. In this challenging world, we need to be aware of our innate reactions to threat and when threat shifts us from a species of benevolence to one locked in a state of defense. In The Embodied Healing Workbook, Dr. Cook-Cottone provides a toolkit with easy-to-follow exercises that enable us to be safe enough to honor and explore our bodily feelings. Through this journey, an awareness of feelings emerges that both honors and respects the body's foundational survival reactions and frees the individual to express a more resilient and flexible strategy with others." --Stephen Porges, PhD, author of The Polyvagal Theory and Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory
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About the Author
Catherine Cook-Cottone, PhD, C-IAYT, is a psychologist, certified yoga therapist, and professor at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), specializing in embodied self-regulation, trauma, and psychosocial disorders. She researches embodiment, trauma-informed mindfulness and yoga curricula and interventions, and mindful self-care. In 2019, she received the American Psychological Association's presidential citation for service. She is co-editor in chief of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention and has written ten books and over 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters.