Reclaiming Your Body: Healing from Trauma and Awakening to Your Body's Wisdom

by Suzanne Scurlock-Durana

Overview

Named one of the 50 Best Spiritual Books of 2017 by Spirituality & Practice

A guided tour through the body’s innate healing powers

Many of us have learned to ignore, deny, or even mistrust the wise messages our bodies give us. The result is that when trauma strikes, a time when we need every aspect of our beings to master the challenge, we may find ourselves disconnected from our greatest strengths. Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, who has spent thirty years studying the gifts of the body and teaching thousands how to reclaim them, began to recognize this strength, which she likens to a GPS, when she herself experienced a life-threatening trauma. Here she walks readers through different areas of the body, revealing the wisdom they hold and how to reconnect with that wisdom. As she shows in this warm, compassionate book, the body’s abilities are always available; we must simply reconnect with them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608684687
Publisher:	New World Library
Publication date:	06/13/2017
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Suzanne Scurlock-Durana’s Healing from the Core curriculum, combined with CranioSacral therapy and other bodywork modalities, creates a complete, body-centered guide to awareness, healing, and joy. She is also the author of Full Body Presence. She teaches around the world and lives in Reston, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Chapter 1 The Answers Lie Within: The Journey Begins 1

Chapter 2 The Five Body Myths: Blind Alleys That Throw Us Off Course 17

Chapter 3 The Hallmarks of Optimum Health Finding the Path Home 39

Chapter 4 Embodying Fully Practices to Live By 49

Chapter 5 Your Heart: The Gift of Inspiration 81

Chapter 6 Your Gut: The Gift of Instinctual Knowing 103

Chapter 7 Your Pelvis: The Gift of Power 121

Chapter 8 Your Legs and Feet: The Gift of Movement 133

Chapter 9 Your Bones: The Gifts of Clarify and Steadiness 143

Chapter 10 Your Brain: The Gifts of an Integrated System 155

Chapter 11 Living in All Our Cells Life Is Waiting for You 171

Chapter 12 Opening to Life Intentionally: Action Steps for Twenty-Eight Days 177

Acknowledgments 183

Notes 187

Resources 193

Index 195

About the Author 201

Editorial Reviews

Reclaiming Your Body is an invitation to come home to the very grounds of this cherished life. A master teacher and healer, Suzanne Scurlock-Durana draws on her decades of work facilitating profound transformation in people suffering from a range of physical and emotional dis-ease. The result is a brilliant and compelling guide to the deepest freedom — living from awake, vibrant, loving presence.”
— Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge

“Suzanne Scurlock-Durana is a master practitioner, with extraordinary intuitive and healing abilities, whom I have been blessed to know and work with for many years. Reclaiming Your Body is a gorgeously written introduction to her deep work on body intelligence — one that anyone can understand and put into practice. It is a groundbreaking work that can lead all of us to more health, vitality, and freedom.”
— Rachel Carlton Abrams, MD, MHS, ABIM, author of BodyWise: Discovering Your Body’s Intelligence for Lifelong Health and Healing

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