Trauma and Spirituality

New Age / Esoterics

Self-help

Peter A. Levine

Inner Traditions

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Transformation and Awakening on the Path to Healing

Peter Levine’s legacy book.

A beautiful look at how the stages of a traumatic experience can be reminiscent of those of a spiritual awakening. Personal and touching stories accompany the journey, while the spiritual pieces vary by tradition and geography. Together, the two leave the reader with a validation that they have experienced something more profound than they can themselves describe, and that somehow their suffering led to something profound.

Spirituality and Trauma brings something unique to the trauma book landscape in which Gabor Maté, Mark Wolynn, Bessel van der Kolk, and even Stephanie Foo’s writing delivers. It bridges the traumatic experience with the spiritual experience in a way that delivers a finite piece in the wake of suggestive pieces. While the other trauma books help the reader to identify their trauma, heal from it, relate to someone else, this one validates the reader’s guttural feeling- that they have experienced something transcendental.

Foreword by Alanis Morissette.

Twelve chapters, from Unbroken and Trauma and Awakening through meditation and its dark side, attachment and development, archetypes and myths, shamanism and ecstasy, to Where Trauma Healing and Spiritual Practice Meet.

Peter A. Levine

Doctor of Medical and Biological Sciences (Berkekey, California), Doctor of Psychology, he has studied stress and trauma for years and has contributed to numerous scientific and medical publications on the subject. He was a consultant for NASA during the development of the space shuttle and has taught in hospitals and pain clinics in Europe and the USA. He founded the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute (Boulder, Colorado). Translated into 20 languages, his book has become a worldwide bestseller.

Agence Schweiger