Pulling the Thread

Pulling the Thread

Where Trauma Begins (Peter Levine, PhD)

Listen now (46 mins) | “There are therapies where the person is made to relive their traumas over and over and over again. It's called flooding. And that's the one type..."

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Elise Loehnen
May 21, 2024
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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 inte…

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