Sharon Stanley, PhD, is a dynamic educator and psychotherapist who has taught creative practices for healing trauma to therapists and Indigenous people throughout the world.

Introduction to the Second Edition 1. Trauma and Embodied Relational Therapy 2. Structures and Functions of the Body-Mind-Brain, Homeostasis, and the Polyvagal Theory of Autonomic Functioning 3. Good News! The Brain Can Change! 4. Embodiment: Coming Home to Our Bodies 5. With Trauma, "the Spirit Leaves the Body" 6. Somatic Awareness: The Truth of the Mind Begins in the Body 7. Somatic Empathy: Encounters of the "Living Body" with Another "Living Body" 8. Somatic Inquiry: Exploring the Intersubjective World 9. Somatic Interventions for Regulating Neural-Emotional States 10. Somatic Interventions with Imagination and Dreams 11. Somatic Reflection 12. The Old/New Paradigm for Healing Trauma Appendix: The Practice of Somatic Transformation Index