"Presenting ways in which restorative yoga can contribute to healing emotional wounds, this book invites yoga teachers and therapists to consider the psychological impact of ethnic and race-based stress and trauma. The book describes how race-based traumatic stress differs from PTSD and why a more targeted approach to treatment is necessary, as well as its triggers. It also considers the implications of an increasingly diverse and global yoga community,...

An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure-- Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged...

"A searing memoir of reckoning and healing from an acclaimed journalist and former This American Life producer investigating the little-understood science behind Complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as a radio producer at This American Life and had won an Emmy. But behind her office door she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk. After years of questioning...