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Peter A. Levine's book, An Autobiography of Trauma, was written initially as a personal excavation and was encouraged to be published by a close friend. The book tells a horrifying but personal story of his experience with trauma, including a violent attack and a rape. The book, which Levine describes as a 'hard work miracle' in healing, is not just about the trauma itself but about the milieu that surrounds it and the healing that follows.
It doesn't say well this is the cure, this is going to take care of everything, because sometimes it does, but often it takes continued work.
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Peter A. Levine's book, An Autobiography of Trauma, was written initially as a personal excavation and was encouraged to be published by a close friend. The book tells a horrifying but personal story of his experience with trauma, including a violent attack and a rape. The book, which Levine describes as a 'hard work miracle' in healing, is not just about the trauma itself but about the milieu that surrounds it and the healing that follows.
It doesn't say well this is the cure, this is going to take care of everything, because sometimes it does, but often it takes continued work.
Partly what I write about in the autobiography is that it takes time because when I started teaching this work people expected that this would work in one or two sessions and sometimes it does, but sometimes it takes repetitive work, especially when we have a lot of early childhood trauma, but it's also possible to heal even though the deepest of traumas, but sometimes it's more, not just a miracle, but a hard work miracle.
I think you really should publish this as a book because it could help other people with their own traumas, with their own healing, and particularly you know with telling their own stories.
I'm standing by an open field and in my hand I have reams of paper and they're typewritten, so obviously it's some kind of a manuscript, but I don't know what to do with it in the dream and I look to the left, I look to the right, and then in my indecision this wind comes from behind me and takes the pages and scatters them into this meadow to land where they may.
I'm going to tell the story and let it land where I may.