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    Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing
    Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing
    Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing
    Audiobook8 hours

    Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing

    Written by David A. Treleaven and Willoughby Britton

    Narrated by Paul Brion

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    About this audiobook

    From elementary schools to psychotherapy offices, mindfulness meditation is an increasingly mainstream practice. At the same time, trauma remains a fact of life: the majority of us will experience a traumatic event in our lifetime, and up to twenty percent of us will develop posttraumatic stress. This means that anywhere mindfulness is being practiced, someone in the room is likely to be struggling with trauma.

    At first glance, this appears to be a good thing: trauma creates stress, and mindfulness is a proven tool for reducing it. But the reality is not so simple.

    Drawing on a decade of research and clinical experience, psychotherapist and educator David Treleaven shows that mindfulness meditation-practiced without an awareness of trauma-can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. Instructed to pay close, sustained attention to their inner world, survivors can experience flashbacks, dissociation, and even retraumatization.

    This raises a crucial question for mindfulness teachers, trauma professionals, and survivors everywhere: How can we minimize the potential dangers of mindfulness for survivors while leveraging its powerful benefits?

    Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness offers answers to this question. Part I provides an insightful and concise review of the histories of mindfulness and trauma, including the way modern neuroscience is shaping our understanding of both. Through grounded scholarship and wide-ranging case examples, Treleaven illustrates the ways mindfulness can help-or hinder-trauma recovery.

    Part II distills these insights into five key principles for trauma-sensitive mindfulness. Covering the role of attention, arousal, relationship, dissociation, and social context within trauma-informed practice, Treleaven offers thirty-six specific modifications designed to support survivors' safety and stability. The result is a groundbreaking and practical approach that empowers those looking to practice mindfulness in a safe, transformative way.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 12, 2018
    ISBN9781977384140
    Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing

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    • 5/5
      Central to personal Trauma and Mindfulness therapy activities together now.

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    • 5/5
      superb, overall the book is very well written and reveals many excellent ideas about how we ought to guide others mindfulness -especially those individuals who have previously had a traumatic experience in their lives....

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