Peter Levine’s Secret to Releasing Trauma from the Body

As a therapist, you know the invisible wounds of trauma are often the most painful and difficult to heal. You want to help your clients repair their wounds, but nothing you try is healing their emotional scars.

In this video clip from his 2013 Psychotherapy Networker keynote address, "Trauma and the Unspoken Voice of the Body," trauma expert and bestselling author Peter Levine explains how the body stores the memory of a traumatic event. Featuring a clip from an actual session with a combat veteran, Levine then demonstrates an exercise for releasing trauma from the body.

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Peter A. Levine, PhD, holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts trainings in this work throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures, with 26 faculty members and over five thousand students. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project and was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethnopolitical warfare. Levine’s international best seller, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, has been translated into 22 languages.

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