Introduction: From concrete bottom to resilience and healing -- Part I How and why trauma lives in the body. Healing with a body-first approach -- The top-down and bottom-up approaches for trauma -- Defining trauma -- Traumatic memory -- The nervous system 101 : why you make sense -- How your childhood attachment inform your adult relationships -- The armor of trauma and the five stuck personalities -- Healthy aggression and life force : rising into your power -- Part II Somatic experience roadmaps. Somatic experiencing basics -- Self-guided experiencing : before you being -- Anger and the armor of flight -- Fear, anxiety, and the armor of flight -- Depression, burnout, and the armor of shutdown -- Dissociation and the armor of functional freeze -- Appeasement and the armor of fawn -- Resourcing for common health issues and everyday triggers -- Conclusion: Let the wild rumpus start -- Appendix A: Nervous system mapping and tracking -- Appendix B: How to find a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner -- Appendix C: References -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
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