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Peter Levine’s Secret to Releasing Trauma from the Body
It's time to rethink trauma by looking to the body's memory of the event, not the mind's interpretation of the story. In this exclusive video, Peter Levine, PhD, demonstrates an exercise for releasing trauma from the body during an actual session with a combat veteran.
Help Clients Heal their Relationship with Food and Body Shame
Free worksheet to help clients understand the how the diet cycle affects their mental health
Experts Judith Matz, LCSW, ACSW, Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, CCTP-II and Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS, explain how the to support your clients in dieting for weight loss, body shame and mental health through trauma-informed strategies.
Whole Body Listening Is Not One-Size-Fits-All
Listening Larry is coming back to classrooms and therapy offices! But this time, you’ll see that listening isn’t a behavior to follow—it’s a process that we all do differently.
Befriending the Body in Trauma Recovery
FREE worksheet from The Embodied Healing Workbook
Trauma certainly alters the mind, but it also affects the physical body. Psychologist and yoga therapist Catherine Cook-Cottone provides a free exercise from The Embodied Healing Workbook to begin reconnecting—and recommitting—to your body.
How Grief Can Affect the Body
Free infographic to educate your clients on the physical effects of grief on the body
While grief primarily affects your clients’ emotions and psychological well-being, it can also have physical effects on the body. This printable resource will help your clients understand the ways grief can impact their body.
Help Heal Your Clients' Relationship with Food and Body
A simple exercise for your clients with emotional and/or disordered eating
Ann Saffi Biasetti, PhD, LCSWR, CEDS, shares with us an upper body scan that introduces interceptive awareness to help heal your clients' relationship with food and body.
3 Things Every Child Therapist Needs to Know About a Kid’s Nervous System
Proven body-based interventions that’ll help your young clients thrive
Jackie Flynn, ED.S., MA, LMHC-S, RPT provides insight into proven body-based interventions that’ll help your young clients thrive.
Bringing Men to the Table: Recognizing & Treating Eating Disorders in Male Clients
Key considerations for working with male clients
To identify and treat males, it takes a complete re-think of what you assume eating disorders look like and how best to assist. Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS-S, provides key guidance.
The Problem With Diet Culture
Free infographic to educate clients on the physical and mental health risks
It’s essential to recognize the impact of diet culture on your clients – and yourself. Use this free infographic to educate clients on the principles of diet culture, as well as its physical and mental health risks.
Treating Binge Eating Disorder, Complex Trauma, and Body Shame
Interview with renowned expert Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW
Binge eating disorder is the most underdiagnosed eating disorders, yet it occurs at very high rates in trauma survivors. In this candid interview, Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, explores the intersection of eating disorders and trauma, as well as the implications for treatment.