Lifting Heavy Things

Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time

By: Laura Khoudari, Licia Sky - foreword

Narrated by: Siiri Scott

In this innovative title, celebrated trainer and trauma practitioner Laura Khoudari brings a fresh approach to healing after trauma, using strength training as an embodied movement practice. Compassionate, witty, and fastidiously researched, Khoudari's debut, Lifting Heavy Things, is a breakthrough title that will empower and inspire you to develop resilience and build emotional and physical strength through working out with weights, while mindful of the ways that trauma can compromise the wellbeing of the mind and body.

In Lifting Heavy Things, you'll learn about: managing chronic pain; creating the conditions for training and healing; understanding how trauma shows up in daily life; using embodied movement practices (beyond yoga) as a tool to comfortably reinhabit the body; navigating interpersonal relationships during and after the healing process; why you don't have to tell your trauma story (to everyone); and thriving with and moving beyond trauma.

With humor, tenderness, and grit, Lifting Heavy Things takes listeners on a journey of personal revelation and integration, helping them to lighten their emotional burden and build deep inner strength to lift all of the heavy things that life may bring with greater ease.

©2021 Laura Khoudari (P)2022 Tantor

OK

mostly about the mindset of exercise. big on mindfulness and even bigger on being woke without saying so explicitly. content was OK, I did not resonate with the authors point of view of the world.

Just exercise, move your body.

She has some good points but is pushing too much of a point of view and political viewpoint. Stop whining and lift heaving with good form! Skip this book.

Narrator

If the book was better, I couldn’t tell—the narrator delivered like a robot making a personal story *feel* incredibly impersonal. Hard to get through bc of that.

This story drags on

I'm struggling to get through this book. The beginning just drags on and is unreasonable. Maybe I'm not her target audience.

Excellent resource!

I am a physical therapist & yoga instructor and work with my clients incorporating nervous system regulation / somatic practices to overcome persistent pain. This book is a wonderful resource to bring those principles into weight training and life long changes in health and well being. Thank you!!