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My response to The Tao of Equus doesn’t begin to express the impact it had on me. I immediately looked for Kohanov’s next book. Riding Between the Worlds contains less abstract theory and more stories from clients and from her own life. It also contains a helpful adaptation of Karla McLaren’s work with emotions into [...] Subtitle: A Woman’s Journey of Healing and Transformation through the Way of the Horse Recommended by: A client. Linda Kohanov and her herd of sensitive horses offer equine facilitated psychotherapy. Together they help both horses and humans recover from trauma, regain their balance, and treat each other with more respect. This many-layered book contains autobiography, horse stories, client [...] Recommended by: Kim Hillis, PT If this book didn’t cost $70, I would be telling every client and practitioner to buy one right now. Both scientific and playful, it offers the latest research about understanding and healing chronic pain. The sensation of pain is the brain’s response to perceived threat. Until it is interpreted by the [...] Recommended by: a client. The opening scene drew me in immediately. Geneen Roth shows eighty women furious at her because she is not yet letting them eat their tomato soup at a retreat about food and mindfulness. A few women bravely share their process of connecting to old pain and realizing that their adult selves [...] Subtitle: The Absolutely Indispensable Next Step for Freeing Yourself from the Monster of the Mind Rick Carson’s prior book Taming Your Gremlin was transformative for me. “Simply notice” and “Play with options” have become touchstones in my own process. Based on the title and subtitle of this book, I had high expectations. Those expections would have been [...] Subtitle: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Heal from Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Related Problems Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (abbreviated ACT, and pronounced as a whole word) invites clients to observe their own behaviors and let go of strategies which might be keeping them from living their most valued life. It includes a strong emphasis on mindfulness [...] Subtitle: How Overwhelming Experience Shatter You… And What You Can Do About It Recommended by: Larisa Koehn In this book, Stephanie Mines introduces and advocates for her approach to healing named Jin Shin Tara. It is derived from Jin Shin Jyutso, a gentle form of acupressure. She defines shock as severe trauma, and then claims that [...] In connection with reading Being Bodies, I tracked down this book. It turns out I’d read it a long time ago and remembered many of the stories, although I’d forgotten their source. Cheri Huber herself admits that the title is a bit of a trick. Rather than trying to move from Here to There, she [...] Recommended by: Catherine Holmes Clark, who also has a detailed site about her journey with environmental illness. The sweet relief of reading about Buddhism from the perspective of women connected with their bodies took me by surprise. Until I read this book, I didn’t realize how much I’d been reading around a feeling of exclusion in [...] Recommended by: a client. Geneen Roth has written several books about overcoming compulsive eating by removing external rules around food and listening to one’s own body instead. She also talks about the source of compulsive eating – not an internal lack of control, but a survival strategy to overcome the lack of external control in childhood. In [...] |
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