trauma healing

I’ve been watching some of Irene Lyon’s videos about healing the autonomic nervous system, which seems to be at the root of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Irene uses techniques based on Somatic Experiencing and has trained with Peter Levine.

I own Peter’s book Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma, and have read it previously. At the time however, I was so anxious and desperate for a miracle cure that I didn’t really take the time to do all the exercises. Before I fork out for one of Irene’s online courses, I thought it would be worth revisiting the book… but this time taking it more slowly so my nervous system has time to titrate out the trauma; if that is, in fact, the problem.

Here are some quotes from the book that resonated with me on the second reading: (more…)