Revolutionary Trauma EXPERT, Dr. Peter A Levine, Reveals Secrets to Health & Human Connection

[@evelinel.9827]

Somatic Experiencing, ISDTP and IFS have helped me recover from childhood trauma, and so many symptoms from Depression to Fibromyalgia to IBS!!!

[@noneofyourbusiness5433]

Thanks for your comment. I'm in bad place and your comment has given me a little hope

[@walsh222]

What would you say was the most helpful for the depression, IBS and fibromyalgia out of them? I’m so happy for you that’s a big deal ❤

[@m_brokenleg]

“Trauma is a fact of life, but it does not have to be a life sentence” (written by Dr. Levine). THAT. In caps. What a voice to survivors, doctors, trauma experts, and all of us who suffer or dea, better or worse, with some kind of trauma. Thanks for having him here! How I’d love an episode of Dr Levine and Dr. Gabor Maté together!

[@Mimi73161]

Oh my gosh that would be everything❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@KToth-rc4oh]

My husband spoke to Dr. Levine after reading one of his books. My husband found him to be kind, thoughtful, helpful and full of wisdom. He really helps fill in a very central piece of the puzzle when it comes to therapy. I cannot wait to tell my husband you guys have interviewed Dr. Levine so he can listen too.! This is, yet, another amazing episode like so many others!❤

[@saadpervaiz9074]

How did he get in touch with Dr. Levine? Would be of great help if you can let me know. :)

[@incensejunkie7516]

I had quite a few years of therapy, with moderate success, but always felt something was missing. It was only when I discovered Peter Levine, Stephen Porges and Bessel Van der Kolk's work did I realize what that missing element was - and yes, it was the body. I found an SE practitioner and my progress is nothing short of amazing. So much gratitude for this podcast and for these brilliant scientists.

[@spocksdaughter9641]

Yup lucky me found the same 3 abt 10 yrs ago OUTLOOK changing

[@KarriSimone]

❤OMG 30 years of therapy and I have been struggling with random anxiety attacks panic attacks and my mind knows what to do but I always fall short when it counts. Finally a past therapist said it's not your mind holding you back it's your body. So now I trying to explore how to heal my body. Thank you because I felt like all the self work I've done wasn't going to ever get me there and was about to give up. Now I have some hope again.....❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@cathyjennings5580]

We are on the right track, it's just a time CONSUMING JOB to pay attention to * keep alive & lively UPRIGHT MINDED . JUST KEEP ALIVE. * KEEP ON doing your very best detective work & self CARE ATTENTION daily. Keep positive minded. Eat non inflammation foods. & Do not allow anyone to abuse U. Do not Disrespect yourself or anyone. Be on guard * say NO to negative persons. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@marisamartinezolivera]

I’ve readhis ‘Waking The Tiger - Healing Trauma’ recommended by my GP doc after the sudden suicide of my bro few years ago. It helped me then. A lot. And I still re-read parts of it. So, having him at the podcast I follow religiously since its first episode is magnificent, amazing, stunning! Forever thankful! 💙

[@ellisburton8733]

12 min in and I'm already fascinated - need this so much as I'm burned out and needing help that a conventional therapist in a small town in Wales UK is not likely to have heard about. As NLP/holstically trained - never ever, allow any one to walk you back 'into' your trauma - it does you no good what so ever, you don't need to be re-associated/re-anchored, you need help to evolve and be a much more healed version on the 'now you'. E. G. - think about it you can't heal a person with a chair phobia by asking them to hold or sit on a chair, therapists need to take a respectful approach to clients, go slowly and look for edges where growth can occur so the system can map growth..

[@gabrielagabyrodriguez72]

I WAS 30 when my brain released my abuse. Thank you for mentioning that the focus should be on the HEALING

[@lottanerve1777]

Thank you Mayim for asking the questions that I am over here wondering. Inquisitive minds want to know. Honestly the only channel that goes deep into the psychology, physiology and asking the more pressing questions that others would never dare to. The channel is greatly needed by those who wish to dig deep.

[@MayimBialik]

🥹🙏

[@Mushroom321-]

Yes!!, 😃😼👏🏼

[@JamieR]

IFS + Somatic work was a match made in heaven. It's unlocked repressed traumatic episodes in my childhood (sexual abuse, neglect, verbal abuse among other things) and let me move through it without dysregulating. All of the sudden my binge eating, isolation, tech and drug addiction etc made so much sense. I was running from the past i didn't even know I had lived through. Psychedelics kept me heallthy for so long, but it didn't resolve the traumas. It did instill deep love for myself and understanding ehat love truly is. I am so thankful for Dr. Peter Levine and Dr. Richards and Dr.Arielle Schwartz work. Truly pioneers in their fields.

[@hopetocope302]

Great interview! I am a counselor and regularly have those I serve check in with their bodies and listen. It is amazing how as we listen to our bodies, from a grounded open and loving space, our bodies will guide us through the healing process bringing up emotions and memories at the perfect time.

[@nicolewilliams2468]

What a fantastic guest with such a calm, compassionate demeanor. That was an extremely thought-provoking episode. Thank you for having him on!

[@PopTartsForBreakfast-n9k]

Waking the Tiger was a brilliant book and helped me understand what I lived was trauma. Love Dr. Levine, what a beautiful soul.

[@delsings]

My body has been breaking down for over 5 years and am so isolated, I clicked this video so fast!

[@sherrilawrence662]

❤me too

[@traceinpaper8606]

Yep, me too.

[@alisonrae]

Same.

[@mimilepsge6785]

Me also!

[@bonnielacombe9835]

I think Peter A. Levine is an adorable Bodhisattva, enlightened teacher. I love this podcast. Thanks so much. 🩷

[@cognossance]

I greatly appreciate you finding such innovative, open-minded AND academically credentialed people who explore concepts that can seem fringe. The fact that Dr Levine would even entertain a discussion about the Akashic records without being dismissive delighted me. Thank you.

[@newpilgrim]

Dr. Levine. You're such a treasure. I'm grateful that my young experience pushed me towards therapy, but also Buddhism at a pretty young age (early 20s). Today I'm in my 50s and have a dedicated meditation practice. I've also decided to live by the precepts. This is the practice I chose...Levine gets to this idea that we teach the body these practices...the body remembers our traumas, but we can also teach our body to self-regulate. Simple, but not easy. I appreciate this conversation! Many thanks!

[@heathercarmona335]

How timely! I am so late listening to this. BUT just a week ago, I had a past life regression session and YESTERDAY finally had an epiphany. When I was born, I was rushed to the NICU, instead of being given to my mother. Turns out this has affected me IMMENSELY and I never connected the two. There are so many things that happen to us that we do not remember and affect us tremendously.

[@meditatewithjazz]

I never knew Osean from his demonstration videos was his godson! My whole class and I practically cried when we saw him work with Osean as a newborn and saw the trauma almost literally leave his body.

[@donnabunce1639]

Outstanding interview with Dr. Peter Levine. I listened to the audio book a couple of weeks ago and since then I have been listening to his interviews which helps me understand and integrate the book more fully. There is a lesson in this. I have studied Carl Jung and am very familiar with his language. It's been a long time since someone has really expressed a true journey into wholeness. I think active imagination is one of the hidden tools and skills of the Self that wants to come into beingness. I was personally somewhat overwhelmed by Dr. Levine honesty in the book. Now after listening to him in several interviews, I am sensing what a gift he is sharing with all of us. He is truly modeling a life of coming into wholeness. He has been called to show us the way!

[@maja6206]

Peter Levine is such a legend. I'm really grateful to live in this time with people like him to help me heal the generational trauma in my life. Awesome work. ♥

[@DarkBlueMemories96]

The things that Dr Levine talked on the podcast helped me realised and made sense of some thing that had been so deeply imprinted in my body that I wasn't even aware of.

[@ChristyBarnhardt]

Would you be able to do a podcast about Mom's going through the process of their children moving out of the nest? How woman transitions from being a Mom 24/7 to being by themselves and having to figure out who they are alone(single Mom here). It is proving to be a big whopper for me and my mental health. I'd greatly benefit from that podcast too. Thank you.

[@Fefe559]

Your not alone & yes - it’s crazy, nobody talks about it either

[@alvodin6197]

You need help. This is not healthy. This is codependency You need to realize that your codependency is damaging your relationships with everyone.

[@alvodin6197]

Being a mom 24/7? This is codependency. Extremely damaging and unhealthy.

[@sybilsanchezkessler4155]

Look for some midlife health coach podcasts and you'll find this topic for sure. You're not alone.

[@michaelk622]

Somatic experiencing has really helped me…mostly sound and vibrational…getting so much more progress than psychotherapy, which helps too

[@cecilliachi]

Dr Gabor also talks about the trauma that newborns who get adopted after birth likely go through. This is so fascinating and I am glad I tuned in today! I can’t wait to dive into his autobiography! I love how you ask smart in depth questions Mayim!! ❤❤

[@mgn1621]

Dr Levine is the pioneer in the trauma field.

[@Merzui-kg8ds]

A pioneer, yes. But, there are several important others.

[@punyashloka4946]

​@@Merzui-kg8ds Peter levine, Bassel vander kolk, Steven purges, Dr schwartz, pat Ogden, Ruth lanious etc are the ones who pushes the boundaries in the trauma treatment.

[@caesarya3408]

Mayim Bialik and Peter Levine - two of my FAVOURITE PEOPLE connected, wow wow wow 😄

[@cayceesmith2650]

I'm excited to see Peter and Gabor together!

[@benjamincrabtree3102]

I LOVE THIS PODCAST!!! Holy crap. Every single week, every guest, it just gets better. LOVE!

[@alixnorman7389]

YES! I found Alan Gordon through this podcast; his 'The Way Out' has become my somatic bible. Now we get Peter Levine - fantastic :)

[@jackieogrady9943]

One of my favourite books!!

[@The_New_Abnormal_World_Order]

So interesting. It never occurred to me that I might have been traumatized when I was 3 and our Mom went away to the USA for 6 weeks without us. It explains a lot.

[@shinewithheart]

His communication with Albert is also known as channeling. ❤

[@rachelkrumpelman5131]

Bessel van der Kolk is amazing too! Great show!

[@jscire__872]

I would love to hear an interview with Richard Schwartz who created Internal Family Systems (IFS)

[@maryannribble3254]

Absolutely Beautiful! Session … thank you , Mayim and Jonathan - your hearing and relaying of these truths are Needed ! I have been expressing these things for many years - as a HOH 69 year old student of Life and Human Suffering and Healing : Human Nature - plus the Nature of Life …❤

[@NatalieVasilyev]

I am glad that Dr. Levine talks about a holistic approach to therapy of a trauma. The fragmentary approach which has been quite widespread specifically with medication proves no longer efficient. As Dr. Levigne mentioned that trauma is the disconnect between the body and the mind and that the remedy is the connection of all the missing parts.

[@bronsonmcdonald5473]

This is a wonderful interview. I learned a lot. The things Mayim and Jonathan said after the interview were very insightful. 💗

[@mnolan1358]

I have had an experience (I do not know what to label it as) but it was post trauma, it was the most beautiful experience I can recall in my life. To me more like “the kingdom is within you” the soul. To be in spiritual awareness the interview you did with Michael Singer was so powerful. After hearing your interview Dr. Peter Levine I now see how special it was. Thank you for what you and Jonathan do! Love the break downs…..it’s like therapy Since my experience, I have had dreams that I know bother me but I cannot recall or focus long enough to understand them. I would like to, but the details get fuzzy.

[@time2bherenow]

Does hypnosis resonate with you?

[@lizziefrances]

I liked Jonathon's "mind body recesses" idea. Levine's work suggests to me holding space for ourselves to meander the ecosystem that is our inner selves, becoming familiar with it rather than imposing an academic sense of control, judgement and catagorisation of our experience. The restlessness I feel trying to articulate my inner experience to myself, much less others, is too circular to be helpful most of the time. Such an interesting episode!

[@orland0110]

Excellent interview with Dr. Peter A. Levine when it comes to releasing trauma. Keep it up with this really enjoyable podcast Mayim, you are the best! ❤

[@e.raymond9294]

Commenting before I watch Was looking up him to reference a video I partially watched. (reference for line of thought about saying "Ummm, like, I don't know" etc. as thought & body grounding pauses) Found this video & am soooo excited to see it. Only have seen 1 video with him, though have 2 of his books, & I adore & respect her ♡. Thank you was my immediate reaction.

[@e.raymond9294]

It will take me a week to a few months to watch & digest thus, yet I will be back. (Dealing with head trauma & burnout )

[@analusouza]

I remembered what happened to me when I was 3 years old. I "saw" a memory of "me" seeing myself from the hight, where I was hold. It was completely instrusive, painfull, terrifying, and I did not want to remember it. This happened when I was 21 years old. It took me 2 more decades to have more memories, and finally start to work on my fifties! I was fortunate d a therapist/psychologist that used a great variety of methods who has helped me deeply. She does not use Peter Levine methodology, but uses other methods using body energy, and trully relped me. I still visit the practice and work on other issues I have to deal now.

[@pearljamin]

So timely for this to show up on my feed. I’m feeling very defeated, exhausted, and like I absolutely cannot do this anymore. Trying my hardest to find a job that allows me to take care of myself as well. I have no idea where to even look anymore I feel people are not honest in interviews or maybe there is a disconnect between HR and what is actually going on. What do other people do for a living while having the capacity to care for themselves? I have no one, never had anyone so I’m used to it, but it is a little different sometimes than others situation

[@retrogirl9089]

I experience being tied into a larger consciousness all the time! I come up with great ideas for products, and then a little while later, the product comes out. Or I think of scientific studies I wish would be done, and then I find out years later they were done. I can sometimes read people's thoughts, like I'll think of something, and then someone else will say it out loud. I consider it some sort of telepathic ability. It makes sense that I'm tapping into the collective unconscious at times too. I'm so glad you had this guest on!! I read a book of his over 20 years ago, and loved it, but I had forgotten about it!

[@marciovieira7849]

Eu não havia percebido que já tinha novo vídeo disponível, estou assistindo agora ....

[@bonnielacombe9835]

Creative imaginings! I’ve been doing this all my life. Thanks for slapping a label on it and letting me know that many people do this too, to get through the rough spots (stuck spots) of living. ❤️😺

[@judes966]

This episode was EPIC. I definitely need to watch/listen again to fully integrate this information. I love your channel ♥️

[@jennyriveragarcia]

Thank you, this episode opened my mind and gave me guidance on what I feel and where I should look. hi from Colombia !

[@MayimBialik]

So glad this one resonated with you. Thanks very much for sharing, and for being here! 🫶🧠

[@rosemarymalner6149]

The 'wrap up' is always my favourite part. Thanks guys

[@sinclairlanier4081]

Just ordered the book - SO excited to read it!

[@cathyray6030]

Thank you for this podcast!! Very interesting! About 10 years ago, I suffered a trauma. The details came out when I was trying to figure out (remember) how I injured my tailbone. Apparently, I fainted and landed on my tailbone during an event where I was a victim of a crime... The body and mind will remember.... eventually... Again, thank you!

[@ElizabethEllisCoach]

Thank you. I love him so much. So grateful for his being, contribution, to my life, to my work, thank you. My family also from same background, place. So relatable, at so many levels. Such a wonderful neshama.

[@ruthyaya]

Love that he had a full on psychedelic experience eating soup. Anything can be a portal.

[@MayimBialik]

🍜🔮

[@MissYanely]

Mayim you’re the best!!

[@evelinel.9827]

I had pre-ordered it and it was realised today!!!

[@TheArtofHealingWithAnesa]

Loved the conversation and Dr. Levine's work. He's a treasure, for sure! 👏🙌💯

[@taralynn7441]

All of this resonated with me. I disassociate as a coping mechanism.

[@SilviaNemaric]

When I was 6 months pregnant, we had a car crash in which I didn´t get injured at all. On the way to the hospital, I kept mentally repeating to my baby "Wait, you are not going to be born today, wait". She was born at her 40th week of gestation. When she was 2 or three she told my sister that once, she was going to be born, but a lady told her not to. She didn´t know about the accident but I think that the words or my feelings were imprinted on her.

[@jho3902]

Teal Swan. Fragmentation. Trauma healing, ancestral healing. She explains all of this so clearly and why everything happens. Would be amazing if you could have her on your show. She’s tapped into things us normal folks aren’t 😂. She is so knowledgeable and so interesting. Another indigo child 👍🏼

[@sherryg1838]

According to the Oh No Ross and Carrie podcast, she’s dangerous and should not be followed.

[@incensejunkie7516]

She just regurgitates the experts research along with some new age dogma. She's a narcissist, there's nothing enlightened or wise about her.

[@Daniellie2]

There is a documentary called the The Deep End. You should watch it!

[@catherinehart3775]

@@sherryg1838I’d give her a listen and decide on your own

[@KayGiddens]

This was wonderful!! I have Somatization Disorder Due Childhood Trauma, CPTSD. I have Fibromalgia. Yay, my body keeping score. I'd love to ask him questions.

[@myheartsdesire643]

I LOVE this! This is so interesting and I am going to check into more of his books etc. Thank you all for a great podcast.

[@connorclouse321]

I'm Connor Clouse from the state of Texas. And Mayim, you're such an amazing comedian!

[@thegoodthings4249]

I do believe in collective consciousness. Right from childhood, I used to get these brilliant ideas which i didnt tell anyone, because who would listen to me, but later i would see someone implement them. And some of them even become mainstream

[@camillealatorre9817]

This inner knowledge, in the Veda literature, Bardo Thodol, they speak about the Yi-dam. This is the conscience, the inner self. Something that we know from the inside

[@time2bherenow]

Thank you all for this. Blessings to you & yours.

[@jannuklugo]

I Absolutely adore your service, guys. it is a different nature. thanks!

[@marciovieira7849]

Acabei de assistir, realmente viver nunca foi fácil, nossos tratos um com o outro como seres humanos sempre estarão sujeitos a traumas,atritos , etc. E, em comparação com os animais, nós, humanos, ao sofrermos um trauma, diferente dos animais que tremer, e se recuperam, nós muitas vezes não conseguimos fazer isso, porque, diferente dos animais, nós temos a capacidade de raciocínio, que os animais não tem, e muitas vezes, isso nos leva a sofrer. Obrigado pelo vídeo de hoje!!

[@CutieWarrior-ol8ik]

I'm not sure if this is a Body memory. It's a positive one. And it happend today! I think it's a very cute story: I'm sick at the moment. I watched the podcast earlier today. I started feeling a lot worse later this day. I'll spare the details. I took some medication. Suddenly I start shaking uncontrolled in my bed!!! (It's ok i'm Not in danger and my other Symptoms were luckily gone) It lasted about 10 minutes I think! As I calmed down, I realized that I was holding my teddy bear's paw with one hand. I got this stuffed animal for my 1st birthday 20 years ago. (No, I don't think you can get too old for stuffed animals) Suddenly the podcast popped into my head and I thought: Body memory? I picked him up and put him on my lap. It felt incredibly comforting. He's so felted and so familiar. I don't remember doing anything special with this teddy. But it's been with me for 20 years and my body remembers. What exacty, I don't know.

[@MayimBialik]

🧸🫶

[@pjthomson1350]

The trauma that can not be comprehended by our conscious mind your brain sends it to our subconcious mind until we can process it in our conscious mind

[@jacqw1515]

this truly is THE best unpack of learning about embodiment!..i get why-better than ever-as to (why) levine's works were our foundative to acclimate us students through this psycho-somatic wayward in processing our life's findings-per where we started at the time we did, & could go on by so-such improve/empower. thank you never-ending for! the 3rd plane palpable realize!:)

[@LizNess]

Dr. Levine's discovery related to Albert Einstein has moved me so deeply. Thank you so much.🤗🩷

[@altaresjoyceee]

Wow! i can't imagine how amazing this episode was! I wanted to talk to him. He is really great! So much to learn in this episode! Can't express it but i definitely will write it down on my "MBB Notes" ❤ Thank you for having him Mayim & Jonathan! ❤😊

[@samsmulders7908]

Amazing conversation! I learn so much from every episode, thank you so much for that🙏🏼! I’m already looking forward to the next one next tuesday❤️! You guys are amazing 🧠🙌🏼

[@TheCoolCookieKitchen]

This is super eye-opening and definitely makes you rethink the concept that kids won’t remember it anyway it’s also making me realize I’m gonna own my daughter some therapy when she’s older

[@jennifersandler-bowen4340]

I love Jonathan and his thoughts💕

[@katriel8693]

This podcast was life- changing for me. Ty to all 3 of you for this. Wow. I have watched several “ breakdowns “ and found them interesting and timely on a more gentle level, but this one stood out by addressing the scars and hope of recovery from sexual trauma, with a scientific depth in the explanations that I need. Personally and professionally excellent. This should be taught to anyone working in the mental health, public health or really any health sector. I will be recommending it a good friend taking her last exams further psychiatry. And then the comment about the mysterious Hungarian side…oh yea! I was aware of somatic symptoms, triggers etc but only felt the titration could happen naturally (not a fan of child within, or EST or reliving). Regarding past theories and treatments, typical medical thinking- evidence- based is buzzword, but the psyche can’t be dissected like the human body. They didn’t cure people, but helped some to get unstuck from the paralysis of anxiety, (albeit temporarily), and go to work and live. Now, hopefully, we can grow, even in our old age. I’ve always been very aware of body memory, but now it has a name I guess. Like intuition, sensing things and somatic reactions- I thought they just existed. Other than spiritually or for safety, I’ve avoided the uncomfortable ones !

[@thesimulation9651]

You know this is going to be a good one when the guest hasn't said anything yet and I already have a full page of notes

[@MayimBialik]

🤣

[@elspethfougere9683]

Gosh, this interview starts off so aggressively pressing dr Levine to disclose and go into one of the most awful experiences of his life, pretty straight off the bat - its not great role modelling to be honest, and i really really hope that anyone else talking with someone about trauma doesnt feel entitled to press someone like this in the future after this. These events are real, its not just an idea, to discuss or pick apart. Even for someone healed, they are inherently aweful and debased. He is such a wonderful man, with so much clinical knowledge, and professional experience, and he is also an elderly gentleman and human being with tender human experience like the rest of us 🙏❤

[@kathymcguire8287]

Thank you so much for Introducing me to "Dr Peter A. Lavine." Listening to him and fully understanding his thoughts and theories about trauma was very enlightening. Simply put I have been through some traumatic experiences more than once throughout my life. Enough said. I have been wanting to get rid of my use of drug therapy for years now without any success no matter how much I wanted it due to the side effects of the withdrawal and not dealing with the traumatic experiences. I am buying and going to try to find a therapist that uses his somatic experiencing theory! However I feel it is exactly what is needed to heal not theory in my opinion. ❤😊 Again Thank you Dr. Peter A. Lavine for sharing your own personal experiences with us and our potential to heal our traumatic thoughts. Thank you Mayik for sharing this podcast with me (us.)

[@MayimBialik]

Sending all the positivity your way on your healing journey, Kathy !! Thanks so much for sharing 🫶

[@kathymcguire8287]

@@MayimBialik You are so welcome! So sorry I spelled your name wrong.

[@nwhittum]

Mayim, THANK YOU! Wow, this discussion was life-changing.

[@louisbonilla6780]

Referring to Jonathan's notion of cellphones and computers as distractions - I'm old enough to remember parks and places where children would meet but those modalities are irresponsible for today's kids - unfortunately it's a pretty sick world we live in and having kids embrace technology for research and entertainment is something that will keep them safe at home - I would never leave my child alone in a park or neighborhood street without supervision - that said we as adults don't read much anymore not for lack of time but it's so much easier to google the question in your mind rather than read a book which could take a few days - otherwise excellent episode - you guys are doing a great service allowing us to embrace knowledge and improve our terms of expression in a forum of entertainment - Thank You❤

[@stephaniebarrows5428]

I’d love to converse with your guest about my experiences and theories about them. Your recent guests have aligned with my past experiences and added to my current understanding. My experiences with oneness started in my 20s, at last as I understand it. I’d love to share them! (I’ll add to this later. Time to go practice!) I have had metaphysical (oneness even psychic/ precognitive) experiences as a result of my mind-body studies. I’ve studied psychology, biology, music and dance… anthropology .. mediation

[@mdouglaswray]

I'm pleased to say I worked on Peter's Macintosh. :)

[@CtheBernwickle]

I’m please to say I worked on Macintosh’s Peter 😏

[@louisbonilla6780]

Had a happy childhood thank God - no abuse no sexual trauma - so unfortunate that sex exploitation in the family is so recurrent - there should be laws protecting children from sick parentals out there - they should get therapy at a discount - love your podcast Mayim & Jonathan - love your medical lexicon - modalities and notions love it all - I always look forward to a fresh Tuesday episode❤

[@GenXMystic]

I've had a lot coming up this past year - inner child stuff and have been using Reiki, sound therapy and crystals to change my energy. I would have laughed at that in the past, although I spent decades on tranquilizers and alcohol among other things that sent me into 12 step recovery and fitness - spiritual exploration, TM, etc. and I have to say what I am doing now is more effective than anything else that I've tried in the past. Or maybe it's just a part of the long journey to healing...

[@punyashloka4946]

Peter levine great guy 👦, A Healer no doubt.

[@EmilyRice-rt2lc]

Can you get Pat Ogden or Kekuni Minton from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy? They are important in the somatic therapy world and bring what i've found to be the most meaningful way to treatment complex trauma.

[@leeannalovestherain]

I just love you and all your works in this world

[@RPK1633]

This is fascinating!

[@verkanntoderverwunschen]

i've really adored the attempt of writing on implicit and procedural memory in application with "Memory Drawing: Perceptual Training and Recall" by Darren R. Rousar it's a library favorite of mine! i think he tackles the abstraction of that surprisingly easefully in wording, although this is an applied skill i do not (yet) possess but i've watched visual artist friends hone and nurture this skill of throughbodied-mentalization! love that the drum has this planetary type of structure to it, is it martian or venusian maybe or just moonlike 🧐

[@omriom]

תודה❤ מעניין מאוד

[@mirashin8400]

Thank you ❤😊

[@graffic13]

I'm interested how my aphantasia is effecting my trauma ... because I don't recall it visually.

[@verkanntoderverwunschen]

in the red book there are jungian footnotes about imaginative-blockages due to how frightening some of that content may be, seemed like he experientially-believed growing access to that property of mind is possible. obviously not to retraumatize and have that in the forefront but just to be able to imagine visually on ones own terms! he starts his imaginative journey off in "the desert of his mind" so he actually presents his own imagination as emptied-out due to fright, which for him seems colored-in by religious trauma. i don't know where scientific consensus on aphantasia is at nowadays! and i do believe there may have been psychedelic substances at play in his journeying that for whatever reason aren't being disclosed though (from what i understand the red book - a spiritual art-notebook of his, grimoire-style even?! - was held back from publishing posthumously due to fears of painting him as a mad person: bit of a witch-hunt if you ask me, it's delightfully creative).

[@verkanntoderverwunschen]

will be looking deeper into the footnotes because i hope he goes into detail on the cases that have displayed this opening-up from imaginative-darkness somewhere! although i do believe the red book serves as a kind of presentation of his outcomes on his own example? but from what i understand he did painterly art therapy with some of these patients, so that's how i will be searching for those writing-about rather than writing-from-within-the-processing insights. some of his own explorative-paintings are in the book, i really love them! but yeah deeply entrenched in spiritual iconography both poetically and figuratively.

[@sabinesunny7880]

Thanks for sharing

[@pjthomson1350]

PTSD when you disassociation can suck at times. Disassociation can be triggered by sounds, voice, loud noises, physical pain or smell

[@AnthonyL0401]

I wanted to enjoy this interview but I felt like Peter was not giving basic enough explanations of the mechanisms of story stuff in the body mind and how it is later released, etc. I will listen again and see if I missed something.

[@midoann]

Big fan of Bing Bang and your character. Just subscribed, long time don’t see on internet. I’m curious about the books you have there. The only title I can read is A Radical Awakening is it from Dr. Shefali? Do you recommend it? I work in the mental health field and very interested in neuroscience. Hugs from 🇯🇵

[@elishaminor2900]

Great show

[@danastonerock]

Please do another Ask Mayim Anything soon !! I submitted a novel last month 😅. ❤

[@JaneDoe-ft8sz]

At first I was embarrassed to do it but once I got used to it I "vooooo" around the house all I need to 😎😎😎

[@melcat5606]

Re: "The Collective" In my experience and what I've heard from many others, is that, to start: We are human animals. All humans, plants, animals, insects, etc., are made up of atoms, right? Atoms break down, ultimately, into energetic particles. So, we are all, critters and plants and the entire earth and all who live within and upon it, ultimately just a collective of energy. On an atomic level, atoms and etc. are constantly interacting, swapping electrons and so on, right? On this energetic level, we ARE all connected, interacting constantly, so at the atomic level, all of us could be considered a collective. The more mystical view also holds that, as an energetic collective, we also share a collective consciousness. This has been supported by documented instances of both humans and critters learning the same or extraordinarily similar ideas at the same time while living in remote-from-each-other places, such as Newton's Law of Gravity and birds learning how to open motion-activated doors to enter and exit buildings. From this perspective, some say we ARE all one overall energetic being (universe and all!) who are separated only by our thoughts and beliefs otherwise. And variations upon that theme abound as well. This is, perhaps, a wee bit over-simplified...