The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma

Body-Based Activities to Regulate, Rebalance, and Rewire Your Nervous System Without Reliving the Trauma

By: Arielle Schwartz PhD, Linda Thai LMSW - foreword

Narrated by: Arielle Schwartz

Whether you've suffered a single traumatic experience or faced repeated difficult life events, you can be left feeling hypervigilant, irritable, and disconnected. Most therapies for treating trauma require you to "revisit" your traumatic experience in potentially triggering ways. In this cutting-edge workbook, bestselling author and trauma expert Arielle Schwartz provides a practical, body-based method to help you treat your trauma symptoms—without reliving your trauma or being exposed to triggers.

The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma offers evidence-based activities to help you heal the effects of trauma, rewire your nervous system, and return to a state of balance and calm. You'll begin by getting to know your nervous system, including an exploration of polyvagal theory and the vagus nerve. You'll also learn soothing, body-based practices to help you rewire your nervous response, including rhythmic movements (EMDR and tapping), conscious breathing, mindful movement, and more. Self-reflection prompts will help you get the most out of every chapter, and a comprehensive collection of tools will help you stay on the path to trauma recovery.

You don't have to relive your trauma in order to heal. With this powerful workbook, you can take charge of your mental health, build resilience, and feel safer and more connected.

©2025 Arielle Schwartz (P)2025 Tantor Media

great resource

great resource for healing through trauma. highly recommend. thank you! here are five more words.

Great Ideas

I had a very limited understanding of the polyvagal nerve so this was excellent. This was filled with ideas that I will use to calm my nervous system.

Nailed it

Felt like she wrote the whole book for me. Iv read so many and have been searching for this. Iv been Reading it twice
The first day I got it . Thank you