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20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model
This new book is a practical extension of my earlier work, “Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model” (2021), which was tailored for clinicians and mental health experts. Designed for both professionals and their clients, 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction emphasizes hands-on application. It introduces four core concepts of the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ and guides the reader through 20 embodied practices to recognize their body’s capacity for sensing safety and cultivating a grounded felt sense.
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"20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction is a profound guide to reclaiming one’s body, life, and sense of self. By listening to the wisdom of our bodies and cultivating a sense of safety, we can break free from the cycles of trauma and addiction that have held us back. Winhall’s book offers both hope and practical tools for those on this healing journey, transforming how we view and address trauma and addiction"
- Dr. Stephen Porges
The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (FSPM) is a radical departure from the norm. Traditional models of talk therapy try to figure problems out in your head, using your thoughts as your guiding light. This is a tragic mistake. Our culture has forgotten that we live in our bodies. But our bodies have not forgotten us… the body speaks to us in many ways.
Jan Winhall
For Clinicians
Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom-Up Approach
In sharp contrast with the problematic top-down medicalized method to treating addiction, this book presents a paradigm-shifting, bottom-up approach that considers addiction as an adaptive attempt to regulate emotional states and trauma.
Jan Winhall presents a paradigm-shifting, bottom-up approach which draws from the Polyvagal Theory, Embodied Situated Cognition/The Felt Sense, and the Lewis Learning Model of Addiction to offer a graphically illustrated and deeply embodied way of conceptualizing and treating addiction through supporting autonomic regulation. This new model de-pathologizes addiction as it teaches embodied practices through tapping into the felt sense, the body’s inner wisdom.
The book’s informed, compassionate approach to understanding and treating trauma and addiction is highly adaptable to any school of psychotherapy and will appeal to addiction experts, trauma specialists, and clinicians in all mental health fields.
"In this insightful volume (Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom-Up Approach), Winhall brings together the essence of groundbreaking modern therapeutic practices with her own decades of hard-won clinical experience to fashion a new, deeply humane and promising model of addiction treatment, illustrated by poignant clinical vignettes."
- Gabor Maté, MD
Author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Recommended Readings
I have contributed chapters and sections in some of the following books. Others listed here are by colleagues and mentors in the field of trauma therapy, addiction recovery, somatics and more.
Contributing Author
Theory and Practice of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: Beyond the Talking Cure
This comprehensive introduction to Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy lays out the background and fundamentals of the approach covering theory and practice. Much has changed since Eugene Gendlin first introduced Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy to the world in 1996 as a new way to listen to the wisdom of the body during therapy sessions.
Contributing Author
Somatic-Oriented Therapies: Embodiment, Trauma, and Polyvagal Perspectives
UK: 30% Off (add code WN216 at checkout)
This volume of collected work from some of the world’s leading experts in trauma aims to delineate this novel domain of research and clinical intervention. Central to this perspective is the recognition of the profound significance of the body-to-body relationship between therapist and patient; the critical role of trust establishment within the clinical context as a prerequisite for deep transformation; and the possibility to “question” the body, finding “unthought-of” avenues of transformation.
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