Integrative tools for healing the traumatized mind and body
- Combines cutting-edge Western cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and
ancient Eastern wisdom to heal Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Teaches Kundalini yoga practices specifically designed to reset parts
of the brain and body affected by PTSD
- Presents a fast-acting, holistic, evidence-based, and drug-free
program for eliminating PTSD symptoms and restoring health, vitality,
and joy
Trauma, the Greek word for "wound," is the most common form of suffering
in the world today. An inescapable part of living, the bad things that
happen to us always leave aftereffects in both body and mind. While many
people experience these aftereffects and move on, millions of others
develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)--a painful, chronic, and
debilitating barrier to happiness.
Reclaiming Life after Trauma addresses both the physical and
psychological expressions of PTSD, presenting an integrative,
fast-acting, evidence-based, and drug-free path to recovery. Authors
Daniel Mintie, LCSW, and Julie K. Staples, Ph.D., begin with an overview
of PTSD and the ways in which it changes our bodies and minds. They
present research findings on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and
yoga, giving the reader insights into how these powerful modalities can
counteract and reverse the physical and mental aftereffects of trauma.
The authors provide a suite of simple, powerful, and easily learned
tools readers can put to immediate use to reset their traumatized bodies
and minds. On the physical side, they teach four Kundalini yoga
techniques that address the hypervigilance, flashbacks, and insomnia
characteristic of PTSD. On the psychological side, they present 25
powerful CBT tools that target the self-defeating beliefs, negative
emotions, and self-sabotaging behaviors that accompany the disorder.
Drawing on many years of clinical work and their experience
administering the successful Integrative Trauma Recovery Program, the
authors help readers understand PTSD as a mind-body disorder from which
we can use our own minds and bodies to recover. Woven throughout the
book are inspiring real-life accounts of PTSD recoveries showing how men
and women of all ages have used these tools to reclaim their vitality,
physical health, peace, and joy.
