The Somatic Therapy Handbook: Self-Soothing Techniques for Healing Trauma, Enhancing the Mind-Body Connection, and Stress Relief

by Cher Hampton

If You Want to Discover Simple Yet Highly Effective Ways to Release Stress, Tension, and Trauma from Your Mind and Body, This Book Might Be Exactly What You Are Looking For.
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The emotional and physical effects of past traumas can still affect you today. You store these traumatic events in your body.

Because of this, your body can feel really tense and painful, from time to time, or even all the time, and this can be extremely difficult to manage.

These effects might manifest as headaches, digestive problems, disrupted sleep, muscle and joint pain, or decreased productivity.

Your system hasn't developed the appropriate coping mechanisms to handle feelings of anxiety and stress, which might leave you feeling disconnected from your body.

Unlike other stress relief methods, this somatic therapy handbook teaches you to truly listen to your body. So, with the expert guidance of this book, you can uncover the cause of your symptoms, discover what feels truly good for you, and develop a coping mechanism that perfectly fits you.

By doing so, you liberate yourself from suppressed experiences and emotions of the past, paving the way for a fulfilling, balanced, and stress-free life.

Whether you're seeking liberation from past wounds, trying to improve your mind-body connection, or simply yearning for relaxation techniques, this handbook is your compass to a more empowered, vibrant existence. Equip yourself with effective tools to reconnect with your body and navigate life challenges with resilience.

It's the first step to a healthier, happier, and more integrated version of yourself!

Discover the power of somatic therapy in this handbook. Here’s what you will find

EVERYTHING you need to know about Somatic Therapy and the mind-body connection when you're new to this and how this SUCCESSFUL method will help YOU.POWERFUL self-soothing techniques to FULLY MASTER Somatic Therapy, step-by-step.EXPERT guidance through a HOLISTIC healing approach, which despite being underexposed, has already helped MILLIONS of people.ESSENTIAL exercises to EMPOWER your mind-body connection and create self-awareness.How your body is the KEY to unlocking suppressed emotions and trauma responses, paving the way to a life of ELEVATED WELL-BEING.PROVEN methods for IMMEDIATE CHANGE to release trauma, restore emotional balance and cultivate inner harmony.The #1 SECRETS to finding LASTING inner peace.SUPER EFFECTIVE tools to recognize your bodily sensations and their connection to your emotions.How to get rid of your existing coping mechanism and build RELIABLE coping strategies that will work ESPECIALLY FOR YOU.EYE-OPENING strategies to regulate your emotions and reduce anxiety, so you can OVERCOME daily triggers and challenges.
And so much more!

Even if you feel vulnerable uncovering deep-rooted traumas, this book can help you, with its step-by-step practical guidance.

Genres: Self Help, Health, Nonfiction, Mental Health, Psychology

164 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 9, 2023

Reviews

[Aldon Hynes · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book, for what it is, and like most books, it would be a disappointment if you were looking for something else. So, let me share my experiences of this book.

Personally, I would not call it a handbook. For me, handbook connotes an academic of intellectual treatise full of footnotes and citations. A handbook, for me, is something that experts keep on their shelves to refer to from time to time. That is not what this book is.

Instead, I experienced this as a guidebook to people starting off on a self-help journey exploring somatic practices. It provides a helpful map of the journey into somatic practices, laying the groundwork and providing examples. If you’ve done a bit of somatic work already, you might find parts of the book repetitive.

If what you are looking for is a guidebook to help you get started, this is an excellent resource. Spend time exploring the practices the book presents. Like the journey of healing, you may find this book a resource that you’ll want to come back to from time to time as you make progress and as you look to deepen your practices.

If you are curious about somatic practices, if you are looking for ideas on how to get started, or enrich your practices, I strongly recommend this book. Likewise, if you aren’t sure what somatic practices are, I’d encourage you to pick up this book and learn more. In can be very helpful in your journey.

Note: I received an advanced readers copy of this book to review prior to the books release. The opinions I have expressed here are my own.

[Macey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great starting point. I highly recommend.

[Jaimie Goodwin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book on basics of somatic therapy.

This is a good book for someone who is brand new to the concept of somatic therapy.

I personally, was looking for a more in depth dive into the techniques and science of somatic therapy work and so for me it felt a bit too surface level.

I also started to feel as though the advice in the book got repetitive.

[Lisa Oswald · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was curious about the author's viewpoints on healing trauma and although there were beneficial connections presented for how healing work needs to happen within the physical body, it didn't go deep enough and I found it repetitive and disliked the use of bullet points too. I wish the book addressed how belief-oriented systems create a blind transference of temporarily disconnected emotions to people, places, and things, instead of separating emotions into the old paradigm of liked and "not-liked." Somatic therapy works when we embrace that whatever we find going on with ourselves is noticed as "me" that's got it going on. If we don't have the deepest possible somatic connection to our own energy and emotions, the mind's eye default setting will use reasons to explain how some emotions are given higher value and those that we're trying to heave over the side. That just doesn't work very well for soul-deep healing because we actually can't get rid of what we don't like or have just forgotten about because it is after all, completely and wonderfully, ourselves.

Time to go deep; we're all grown-ups now and don't need to be handled by others and their beliefs about life.

[Miss PaulaE · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant

This was written with compassion and much consideration for those who are or have experienced trauma. The exercises are practical. This is a must read for anyone who thinks they know about self-care.

[Heather Mattern · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really FELT this book finding many of its tips and practices intriguing and more helpful than i anticipated. So much so that even as I’ve finished it I plan to keep the handbook on my kindle until I can snag my own paperback version. I’m also super curious about the “workbook” that goes with it!

[Katherine Link · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice Short intro

This book was a nice overview of various somatic techniques. I am glad to have read it! Although I was aware of many of the practices in this book, I highly recommend taking time with each of them to see if they benefit you.

[Jenny Saltmarsh · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book super useful - I think we've lost connection with our bodies. I had certainly lost myself. This book has allowed me to start the journey of reconnecting to myself.

I found some really useful self-soothing techniques in this book.

[Ivee Lain · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good beginner’s book for starting out in somatic therapy.

[Cecilia Gilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Somatic Healing

Supported my own knowledge of self healing and gave actions and exercises to continue the process. Stress relief is under your control.

[S.K. Gregory · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some very interesting techniques. Very helpful

[Book Addict · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author has thoroughly works through all the different types of somatic exercises for the reader to try to improve their wellbeing. A useful read and the free extras were also great.

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good information for beginners, but probably nothing new for practicing clinicians.

[Elise · Rating 5 out of 5]

so far so good

Looking forward to the work book. So far and easy read not done yet. Will be giving it as a gift to family.

[Paige · Rating 3 out of 5]

DNF

[Margot · Rating 4 out of 5]

great for somatic understanding

It gives a great picture of what somatics is about and how we can use it for betterment. It helps connect the dots between trauma and healing

[Charlie Carte · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderful intro to somatic therapy and what it means. Not entirely a dry read, it was kept informational but not textbook dry.

[Kristen Kase-Janowski · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not what I expected

It’s fine if you’re looking for a basic primer to somatic therapy. It gives some good basic foundations and techniques.

[Juliana · Rating 3 out of 5]

The title of "Handbook" is more than the content really is. This could be a great starting point but lacks depth.

[Jenna Purdy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great for beginners. There were quite a few copy errors, so I hope they publish an updated edition.

[Reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an easy to read guide to begin to help heal yourself. Will read again!

[Stephanie Garcia · Rating 5 out of 5]

excellent somatic healing book

Great book and informative. I added the somatic exercises I learned to my self care and adjunct to therapy as part of my treatment.

[Emily Evans · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s… fine. It gets a bit repetitive, but it’s fine. I don’t know about healing trauma with this text, but I think it could be helpful with general self care and awareness.

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good information but I wish there were more examples of concrete exercises in unique areas like TRE.

[Joseph Kreydt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of good meditation exercises, but I thought there would be more actual somatic techniques, or more details about the ones mentioned.

[CelticMoonGoddess · Rating 4 out of 5]

As an energy based therapist I enjoy reading in my favourite subject of metaphysics, esoteric and complimentary therapy genres and I am adding this book to my go to reference section.
I had to take my time with the book as found it so engaging, informative and so well describing the basics of mind body connection, healing and self exploration. Somatic therapy has been something that keeps popping up into my awareness especially after listening to a summit few years ago with lectures from Peter A. Levine and other somatic therapists.
Thank you Cher for a beautifully written book, such a lovely energy reading it and will enjoy reading it often as no doubt will return to it often for its practical practices and especially integrating with other modalities.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.