Healing Developmental Trauma by Laurence Heller

Peter A Levine, PhD, author of In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness and Waking the Tiger: Healing Traumaįor many, the experience of developmental and relational trauma results in a sense of diminished aliveness. Healing Developmental Trauma provides clear guidance to help us hold, with knowledge and self-compassion, those seemingly irreconcilable opposites and is a vital and accessible map supporting emotional maturity and psycho-spiritual growth.” ”This well-organized, valuable book offers easy-to-understand tools for all of us who are seeking a better understanding of our fundamental conflicts between oneness and separateness, dependence and autonomy. They demonstrate how these struggles stem from five biologically-based organizing principles-the need for connection, attunement, trust, autonomy, and love-sexuality. In Healing Developmental Trauma, authors Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre demystify the seemingly endless number of emotional problems we face as a result of developmental and relational trauma.

But developmental and relational trauma, which can result from ongoing experiences of early neglect, abuse, and misattunement, impairs our capacity to connect with ourselves and others.

It emphasizes a person's strengths, capacities, resources, and resiliency and is a powerful tool for working with both nervous system regulation and distortions of identity such as low self-esteem, shame, and chronic self-judgment.The capacity for connection defines emotional health. NARM is a somatically based psychotherapy that helps bring into awareness the parts of self that are disorganized and dysfunctional without making the regressed, dysfunctional elements the primary theme of the therapy. Explaining that an impaired capacity for connection to self and to others and the ensuing diminished aliveness are the hidden dimensions that underlie most psychological and many physiological problems, clinicians Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre introduce the NeuroAffective Relational Model(R)''(NARM), a unified approach to developmental, attachment, and shock trauma that, while not ignoring a person's past, emphasizes working in the present moment. Written for those working to heal developmental trauma and seeking new tools for self-awareness and growth, this book focuses on conflicts surrounding the capacity for connection. Print Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-regulation, Self-image, and the Capacity for Relationship

Healing Developmental Trauma by Laurence Heller