Transforming Trauma

The Path to Hope and Healing

By: James S. Gordon

Narrated by: Will Damron

A world-recognized authority and acclaimed mind-body medicine pioneer presents the first evidenced-based program to reverse the psychological and biological damage caused by trauma.

In his role as the founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), the worlds largest and most effective program for healing population-wide trauma, Harvard-trained psychiatrist James Gordon has taught a curriculum that has alleviated trauma to populations as diverse as refugees and survivors of war in Bosnia, Kosovo, Israel, Gaza, and Syria, as well as Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, New York city firefighters and their families, and members of the U. S. military. Dr. Gordon and his team have also used their work to help middle class professionals, stay-at-home mothers, inner city children of color, White House officials, medical students, and people struggling with severe emotional and physical illnesses.

Transforming Trauma represents the culmination of Dr. Gordon’s fifty years as a mind-body medicine pioneer and an advocate of integrative approaches to overcoming psychological trauma and stress. Offering inspirational stories, eye-opening research, and innovative prescriptive support, Transforming Trauma makes accessible for the first time the methods that Dr. Gordon—with the help of his faculty of 160, and 6,000 trained clinicians, educators, and community leaders—has developed and used to relieve the suffering of hundreds of thousands of adults and children around the world.

incredible work

I absolutely love this book. I wish I could buy it for everyone I know. As a psychology student studying trauma, this book does an incredible job combining engaging narrative, current research, and a mindful approach to the phenomenology of trauma.

Learning the Affects of Long-TermStress

A Most interesting discussion of our brains and the long/term affects of Stress on our lives and how this is passed down to future generations!

Outstanding Information

As a physician who uses integrative medicine this book is wonderful for anyone to help with self-care tools. I will highly recommend this to my patience in my practice and my colleagues to utilize. I’m grateful to Dr. Gordon for the time he took to put together his many years of knowledge that will forever change our field of healthcare.

Must Read for Trauma Survival

This book is filled with relevant information for anyone who has experienced any sort of trauma.

Highly educational and greatly needed!

There are so many complimentary and additional treatments out there that can really help people with depression and trauma recovery. Whether that's acute trauma from a horrifying experience or chronic trauma from ongoing stress, loss, and devastation. I'm so glad to see academic researchers and medical doctors weighing in with their experiences and revealing the research for the many ways people can heal. Great appendix, as well. Dozens upon dozens of different therapies and reasons to hope!