TRAUMA-SENSITIVE MINDFULNESS

While mindfulness and meditation can be very effective tools for healing, these tools can also provide situations that unwittingly encourage trauma sufferers to dissociate and retraumatize themselves. This book provides a review of the reasons why meditative practice can be harmful and offers solutions to this conundrum.

David A. Treleaven, PhD, is a somatic therapist in the San Francisco Bay area. He lives in Berkeley, California.