This Is Your Body on Trauma

How to Nourish Safety, Resilience, and Connection with Polyvagal-Informed Nutrition

By: Meg Bowman MS CNS LDN CHES

Narrated by: Meg Bowman MS CNS LDN CHES

This Is Your Body on Trauma is the first book to teach how to use nutrition to heal underlying trauma that presents in physical symptoms. It features a unique do-it-yourself approach, allowing people to completely customize their care plan.

Trauma is pervasive, and recovery usually involves extensive talk therapy. What is often overlooked is using nutrition as a way to restore a sense of safety and self-trust. Research shows between 75 and 90 percent of physician visits are due to the wear and tear on the body from stress hormones. The gut is often our first indicator that something is awry; it is the watchtower raising the alarm, and the existence of trauma can create a negative feedback loop with the brain that leads to several quite common gut-brain axis complaints, such as anxiety, depression, IBS, and pain.

More than “just” a nutrition book, This Is Your Body on Trauma helps people make connections between what is going on in their mind and body with a unique 360-degree integrative approach to mental health. Using a unique, customizable approach, listeners are given a series of experiments based on recommendations, formulating their needs and providing actionable solutions to lessen the perception of stress with nutrition. This book will help people who have experienced traumatic events as both a child and an adult, those who experience chronic stress, as well as people who have experienced food trauma heal and manage the physiological impacts of that trauma throughout their lives.

• The experiments provided in the book can be done in collaboration with a therapy or nutrition provider.

• This book is the only one that discusses not only nutrition for trauma (what to eat), but also applies it in a trauma-informed way (how to eat to avoid triggers).

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Easy to follow and enjoyable!

Meg’s insights are truly helpful and easy to implement! I loved the staged approach based on levels of stretching the nervous system and how it is not a one size fits all approach. I truly believe that this approach to nutrition is the way forward and have been recommending this book to my friends, family, colleagues, and clients!