"In order to change we need to feel safe enough to take the risks that healing requires" - Peter Levine

💊 Healing

“In order to change we need to feel safe enough to take the risks that healing requires”

The sense of safety is a prerequisite for taking the risks that healing demands.

“Trauma is not what happens to us but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness”

— Peter Levine

“Traumatic symptoms are not caused by the event itself they arise when residual energy from the experience is not discharged from the body”

— Peter Levine

“The healing of trauma is a natural process that can be accessed through an inner awareness of the body”

— Peter Levine

“Healing trauma is not about remembering it is about the body releasing what it has held”

— Peter Levine

“The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect and healing unlocks that transformation”

— Peter Levine