A review by rbogue
In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness by Peter A. Levine

Trauma is – in more ways than one – that unspoken voice. In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness is what Gabor Mate describes (in the intro) as Peter Levine’s magnum opus. Gabor Mate is no stranger to trauma work, having written several books, including The Myth of Normal. In an Unspoken Voice isn’t Levine’s most popular work – that’s Waking the Tiger. Trauma, Levine writes, is a fact of life. He continues with, “It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.” Said differently, we are all traumatized by things that happen in our lives, but we don’t need to remain in the trauma. We can enable our minds to integrate and find meaning from the trauma and allow our bodies to release it.

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