Resources
Articles
- Dancing with Your Inner Critic : Question Your Thoughts
- Anger, Thunder, and Healing: Making Friends with Anger
- Don’t Believe Everything You Think! Question Your Thoughts
- Feeling Overwhelmed? Tense?
- Is It Really Procrastination?
- Is It Stress or Trauma? Learn the difference and outsmart anxiety
- Healing Trauma: Wild Animals Know the Secret
Audio
- Podcast on working with Freeze
- Podcast The Body Remembers
- My friend and colleague Stephanie Sisson LCSW, SEP offers some wonderful resources: Her free mini e-course: 5 Simple Activities to Help You Feel Better . . . Right Now
Somatic Experiencing® Website
- The Somatic Experiencing® website has a wealth of resources to read, listen or view.
Video
- A 6-minute youtube video of Peter Levine PhD talking about Somatic Experiencing®
- Peter Levine PhD, founder of Somatic Experiencing®
on Covid 19 with Rich, owner of Psychology Today - Peter Levine PhD, The Body as Ally
Books
Some of my favorites include:
- Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents’ Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience by Peter Levine PhD
- Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body (self-help book with CD)
- Crash Course: A Self-Healing Guide to Auto Accident Trauma and Recovery, by Diane Poole Heller, Ph.D., An excellent self-help book on the use of Somatic Experiencing therapy in recovering from trauma caused by an automobile accident
- Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing by Peter Levine PhD
- Freedom from Pain: Discover Your Body’s Power to Overcome Physical Pain by Peter Levine PhD and Maggie Phillips
- The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease by Robert Scaer MD
- The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds and Human Resiliency by Robert Scaer MD
- Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences by Peter Levine PhD
- In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness by Peter Levine PhD
- The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation by Stephen Porges