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If you’ve read or heard anything about trauma, you likely knowPeter Levine’s name, as he’s the father of Somatic Experiencing, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma that’s informed the practice of almost every trauma-worker today. Levine is a prolific writer—his international best seller, Waking the Tiger, has been translated into twenty-two languages—though much of his work has been for fellow academics and teachers. He’s just published a new book, An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey, which is highly accessible for all of us. It’s a beautiful book that recounts how he came to understand the somatic experience of trauma through an event in his own childhood—and the scientists and cultures he encountered along the way that informed what ultimately became a world-changing protocol.
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ELISE: Thank you for everything that you've done for all of us. It's pretty remarkable, and I know you're still teaching and still training and it's still spreading, even in my short career, or shorter career, it feels like somatic experiencing everywhere. It might be my algorithm, but I feel like it's really feels like
PETER: It is.
ELISE: to spread it.
PETER: Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. Yeah.