Releasing our Burdens
A Guide to Healing Individual, Ancestral and Collective Trauma
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- $189.00
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- $189.00
Descripción editorial
‘Trauma can cause our parts to take on burdens. Yet, when we bring the spiritual values of curiosity, gratitude, and kindness to these burdened parts, we discover incredible opportunities for healing and awakening’
A radical approach to collective healing, restoring wholeness and reclaiming your true self
When we focus only on our own trauma, we cannot see how other types of trauma – ancestral, cultural, social, and spiritual – contribute to our present pain and suffering. But when we step back to consider how different parts of our identities are connected, we have a much more complete and coherent picture of our pain. And with awareness comes healing.
In this powerful collaboration, Richard Schwartz – creator of Internal Family Systems – and fellow trauma expert Thomas Hübl expand the map of healing. Through practical exercises such as meditation and reflections, this book will help you release the beliefs and emotions that are burdening you. Using an integrative approach, the authors will not only help you understand the roots of your trauma, but offer you the practical tools to end the cycle of harm for good.
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Therapist Schwartz (You Are the One You've Been Waiting For) and Hübl (Attuned), cofounder of Pocket Project, an NGO dedicated to trauma-informed therapeutic care, team up for a mixed-bag guide to tackling trauma. They define trauma expansively, noting it can be triggered by individual experiences or by broader tragedies, like wars, systemic oppression, poverty, or natural disasters, whose effects trickle down through generations or across populations. Such traumas create a "frozen" or shut-down part of oneself that either "finds a way to pull us back down and screw up our life" or constructs barriers to keep the individual from dealing with its consequences. To heal, Schwartz and Hübl suggest, one must become aware of the frozen "part" and mindfully reintegrate its "layers of experience and relationality" via practices ranging from meditation and self-inquiry to "collective healing" via group support and dialogue. While the narrative can slip into vagueness and feel repetitive (the mindfulness prompts instruct readers in only slightly varied ways to calm down and listen to themselves), the authors' definition of trauma is valuably broad and complex, and their concepts are unpacked in nonjudgmental terms. It's a solid addition to the rising tide of literature on trauma.
