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Reclaiming Your Body: Healing from Trauma and Awakening to Your Body’s Wisdom
A guided tour through the body’s innate healing powers
Many of us have learned to ignore, deny, or even mistrust the wise messages our bodies give us. The result is that when trauma strikes, a time when we need every aspect of our beings to master the challenge, we may find ourselves disconnected from our greatest strengths. Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, who has spent thirty years studying the gifts of the body and teaching thousands how to reclaim them, began to recognize this strength, which she likens to a GPS, when she herself experienced a life-threatening trauma. Here she walks readers through different areas of the body, revealing the wisdom they hold and how to reconnect with that wisdom. As she shows in this warm, compassionate book, the body’s abilities are always available; we must simply reconnect with them.
Many of us have learned to ignore, deny, or even mistrust the wise messages our bodies give us. The result is that when trauma strikes, a time when we need every aspect of our beings to master the challenge, we may find ourselves disconnected from our greatest strengths. Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, who has spent thirty years studying the gifts of the body and teaching thousands how to reclaim them, began to recognize this strength, which she likens to a GPS, when she herself experienced a life-threatening trauma. Here she walks readers through different areas of the body, revealing the wisdom they hold and how to reconnect with that wisdom. As she shows in this warm, compassionate book, the body’s abilities are always available; we must simply reconnect with them.
216 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 15, 2017
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About the author
Suzanne Scurlock-Durana
14 books14 followersHello! I’m Suzanne, and I’m one of the world’s leading authorities on conscious awareness and its transformational impact on the healing process.
For more than 30 years I’ve empowered people just like you with practical tools to experience joy in each moment without burning out. These skills help improve every aspect of your life, from health and well-being to relationships, careers, creativity, even the growth of your business.
I created the comprehensive Healing From the Core training curriculum in 1994. Today it includes a robust selection of international workshops, webinars, speaking engagements and audio programs.
I’m also the author of both Reclaiming Your Body: Healing From Trauma and Awakening to Your Body’s Wisdom (New World Library, 2017) and Full Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body’s Wisdom (New World Library, 2010).
Enjoy your reading!
For more than 30 years I’ve empowered people just like you with practical tools to experience joy in each moment without burning out. These skills help improve every aspect of your life, from health and well-being to relationships, careers, creativity, even the growth of your business.
I created the comprehensive Healing From the Core training curriculum in 1994. Today it includes a robust selection of international workshops, webinars, speaking engagements and audio programs.
I’m also the author of both Reclaiming Your Body: Healing From Trauma and Awakening to Your Body’s Wisdom (New World Library, 2017) and Full Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body’s Wisdom (New World Library, 2010).
Enjoy your reading!
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March 18, 2018
A gentle introduction to bodywork for trauma survivors.
Readers searching for something beyond meds and talk therapy will appreciate this introduction to bodywork. Because trauma frequently robs its victims of the sense of feeling at home in their bodies, it's useful to have a non-verbal option that restores bodily trust. The author is a CMT and a CST-D, so you might want to check in with your MD, psychiatrist, or therapist before trying the exercises in this book, just to let them know what you're doing and get your opinion.
The primary modality here is craniosacral therapy. Scurlock-Durana walks readers through the various visualizations and exercises, with accompanying anecdotal evidence of how they've worked for her and her clients in practice. Readers who sign up for an account on the author's website are able to download mp3s of the written meditations; although I wanted to try them, I didn't get around to doing so before returning the book to the library, so I don't have any anecdotal evidence of my own to add.
If there is a demand for complementary/alternative medicine at your location, you may want to consider picking this up. Trauma is a widespread concern, and people who suffer from it are always looking for more help. This will be best for larger collections, and you will probably have to gently remind your patrons that you are not licensed to practice medicine (unless you are, in which case, be firm but kind with your professional opinion).
Readers searching for something beyond meds and talk therapy will appreciate this introduction to bodywork. Because trauma frequently robs its victims of the sense of feeling at home in their bodies, it's useful to have a non-verbal option that restores bodily trust. The author is a CMT and a CST-D, so you might want to check in with your MD, psychiatrist, or therapist before trying the exercises in this book, just to let them know what you're doing and get your opinion.
The primary modality here is craniosacral therapy. Scurlock-Durana walks readers through the various visualizations and exercises, with accompanying anecdotal evidence of how they've worked for her and her clients in practice. Readers who sign up for an account on the author's website are able to download mp3s of the written meditations; although I wanted to try them, I didn't get around to doing so before returning the book to the library, so I don't have any anecdotal evidence of my own to add.
If there is a demand for complementary/alternative medicine at your location, you may want to consider picking this up. Trauma is a widespread concern, and people who suffer from it are always looking for more help. This will be best for larger collections, and you will probably have to gently remind your patrons that you are not licensed to practice medicine (unless you are, in which case, be firm but kind with your professional opinion).
July 18, 2017
As I work through my YogaFit for Warriors trainings and learn to teach in a way to help my students heal from their traumas, this book came at the right time. It was really interesting and deepened my knowledge of how we store trauma and how each part of our body relates to different types of trauma. Super, super interesting. A great read for everyone, but especially those working in trauma settings or teaching yoga/meditation/etc.
June 21, 2023
Loved it. Started doing the audio exercises and I'm intrigued to get deeper into this work.
May 23, 2017
Endorsements:
“Reclaiming Your Body is an invitation to come home to the very grounds of this cherished life. A master teacher and healer, Suzanne Scurlock-Durana draws on her decades of work facilitating profound transformation in people suffering from a range of physical and emotional dis-ease. The result is a brilliant and compelling guide to the deepest freedom — living from awake, vibrant, loving presence.”
— Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha and True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
“Suzanne Scurlock-Durana is a master practitioner, with extraordinary intuitive and healing abilities, whom I have been blessed to know and work with for many years. Reclaiming Your Body is a gorgeously written introduction to her deep work on body intelligence — one that anyone can understand and put into practice. It is a groundbreaking work that can lead all of us to more health, vitality, and freedom.”
— Rachel Carlton Abrams, MD, MHS, ABIM, author of BodyWise: Discovering Your Body's Intelligence for Lifelong Health and Healing
“Reclaiming Your Body is an invitation to come home to the very grounds of this cherished life. A master teacher and healer, Suzanne Scurlock-Durana draws on her decades of work facilitating profound transformation in people suffering from a range of physical and emotional dis-ease. The result is a brilliant and compelling guide to the deepest freedom — living from awake, vibrant, loving presence.”
— Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha and True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
“Suzanne Scurlock-Durana is a master practitioner, with extraordinary intuitive and healing abilities, whom I have been blessed to know and work with for many years. Reclaiming Your Body is a gorgeously written introduction to her deep work on body intelligence — one that anyone can understand and put into practice. It is a groundbreaking work that can lead all of us to more health, vitality, and freedom.”
— Rachel Carlton Abrams, MD, MHS, ABIM, author of BodyWise: Discovering Your Body's Intelligence for Lifelong Health and Healing
March 31, 2020
For those who are uncomfortable with spiritually-themed mindfulness meditation, this book provides several somatic-centered meditation exercises that would be very helpful in developing body awareness, especially for those who have experienced trauma. It gets a bit woo-woo at times (as much as I think energy work can be effective, I always get hives reading about it), but overall it's coming from a deep place of compassion.
April 15, 2023
Lots of useful interoception pointers.
November 13, 2021
This deep dive into each body system and the sensational, informational wisdom it contains is priceless. I especially enjoyed the explorations, which are also available as guided meditations from the author's website. Reclaiming your Body has been an incredible resource on the path to embodiment.
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