A celebrated strength trainer and trauma practitioner offers a fresh
and empowering approach to healing and thriving after trauma.
In this innovative title, celebrated trainer and trauma practitioner
Laura Khoudari brings a fresh approach to healing after trauma, using
strength training as an embodied movement practice. Compassionate, witty
and fastidiously researched, Khoudari's debut, Lifting Heavy Things,
is a breakthrough title that will empower and inspire you to develop
resilience and build emotional and physical strength through working out
with weights, while mindful of the ways that trauma can compromise the
wellbeing of the mind and body.
In Lifting Heavy Things, you'll learn about:
- Managing chronic pain
- Creating the conditions for training and healing
- Understanding how trauma shows up in daily life
- Using embodied movement practices (beyond yoga) as a tool to
comfortably re-inhabit the body
- Navigating interpersonal relationships during and after the healing
process
- Why you don't have to tell your trauma story (to everyone)
- Thriving with and moving beyond trauma
With humor, tenderness and grit, Lifting Heavy Things takes readers on
a journey of personal revelation and integration, helping them to
lighten their emotional burden and build deep inner strength to lift all
of the heavy things that life may bring with greater ease.
