20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction: Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model

Trauma and addiction heal in tandem with this paradigm-shifting approach.

What if addiction, dissociation, and other manifestations of trauma were not framed as diseases or disorders, but rather as adaptive methods of regulating the autonomic nervous system (ANS)? This book takes that approach, and guides readers through 20 embodied practices that promote the rewiring of the ANS. By integrating the latest neuroscience from Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theory with Eugene Gendlin’s embodied felt...