North Atlantic Books,U.S.

A comprehensive workbook for understanding and treating developmental trauma using the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) Includes practical exercises for understanding ACEs, addressing C-PTSD, nurturing post-traumatic growth, identifying survival styles, and moreDesigned for clinicians, trauma therapists, and practitioners of the NeuroAffective Relational Model, this workbook offers a blueprint to NARM?s transformative approach to healing developmental trauma. Authors Larry Heller and Brad Kammer share practical skill-building exercises that deepen your own relationship to the material as you learn new, evidence-based, and highly effective ways to work with clients? trauma. Complete with detailed charts, visually engaging graphics, and practitioner-focused questionnaires, this workbook provides tools for use in clinical sessions as well as personal professional growth. In an easy-to-apply format, the Workbook will explore:The 5 adaptive survival styles: Learn how developmental needs for connection, attunement, trust, autonomy, and love-sexuality are disrupted by trauma and map onto adaptive survival strategiesThe 4 pillars of NARM: Understand and apply key therapeutic skills that support healing and post-traumatic growthThe NARM Relational Model: Facilitate trauma resolution and real therapeutic growth via a dynamic, embodied processThe NARM Emotional Completion Model: Support clients in identifying their primary emotions, reflecting the emotion?s intention, and building new relationships to unresolved emotional conflictsThe NARM Personality Spectrum: Use 10 psychobiological traits to understand and assess client self-organizationHeller and Kammer offer personal and therapist-oriented reflection questions to ground your work with NARM and assist you in integrating the model?s nuances. Each section is designed to help practitioners translate NARM?s advanced concepts into actionable strategies that deepen the therapeutic process?and whether you''re new to NARM or seeking to refine your practice, the Workbook equips you with the resources to guide your clients toward profound healing and growth.

A fierce and inspirational guide to Black resistance, resilience, and healing, using the principles of Afro-Indigenous spiritual practicesUnderstanding where you came from is crucial to understand where you are going.The Five Blessings of Ifá explores how Black communities across the diaspora draw strength from ancestral wisdom, family, community care, and mutual aid, using the principles of Ifá?a West African spiritual tradition?as a guiding framework. Activist Gabby Felder provides a blueprint for living a more fulfilled and abundant life through the blessings of Ire Aiku (longevity), Aje (wealth), Aya and Oko (relationships), Omo (children), and Isegun (victory over negative forces), providing practical examples of how Black folks have built resilience and learned to thrive in the face of oppression. Longevity exists in ancestral traditions that we cultivate over generations, which Felder explores through practices of traditional herbalism as well as contemporary sustainability and food sovereignty movements.Wealth, in Felder?s interpretation, has to do with the richness created by community, including cultural traditions of food, dance, and music that connect seemingly disparate African diasporic cultures.Partnership, traditionally understood in Ifá as husband and wife, is reconsidered by Felder to include a wide variety of relationship structures, including familial bonds and queer families.To explore the blessing of children, Felder dives into the important history of doulas and midwives in Black communities, and their crucial role in combatting the high maternal mortality rate among Black women in the US.Finally, Felder draws out the meanings of the blessing of victory through a wide range of examples of Black autonomy: slave rebellions; the rejection of Euro-centric beauty standards; mutual aid practices among Black revolutionary groups; and the contemporary Black witch movement.As a collective, Black folks have managed to usher in the five blessings of Ifá into our lives despite all odds. This book is a love letter to those who have come before us, and a guide to the possibilities that lie in our collective future.

We are at a threshold. As we face uncertain futures, the familiar is falling away. This book invites us to embody new ways of being and connecting so we can navigate troubled times togetherFrom the bestselling author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow, a beautifully packaged collection of 17 essays on meeting this moment with clarity, care, and skill Praise for The Wild Edge of Sorrow: "It blew me away. I underlined things on nearly every page." ?Anderson CooperIn his singular and inimitable voice, psychotherapist and author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow Francis Weller offers 17 soulful essays to help us move together through the anxieties, difficulties, and sacred transitions of 21st-century life.In the Absence of the Ordinary frames our current era as a rough initiation?an upending experience of profound trauma and transformation that demands we reorient our ways of thinking, being, and relating. Through essays like ?Some People Wake Up…,? ?The Gift of Restraint,? and ?Gratitude for All That Is,? Weller offers clarity and wisdom on how to face the sobering stakes of our time?while offering the nourishment and support we need to embody the new roles this initiation requires.Section 1, ?When the Bough Breaks,? names our collective traumas and peels back the false armor of modernity. We?re called to the depths, to understand the power of descent, and to cultivate the necessary skills of initiation.Section 2, ?Care of the Soul,? differentiates between the connected soul and the individualistic self, inviting us back into alignment with the wider world of belonging. We learn to approach our experiences with reverence, work with our grief, and develop restraint, repetition, and self-compassion.Section 3, ?Meanwhile, the World Goes On,? gives shape to the emptiness we carry and the ways modernity has severed us from our birthright of interconnectedness with the natural world. It offers rituals of gratitude and practices of kinship to restore our bond with the living Earth.In each essay, Weller fortifies us to become immense?to meet these unpredictable times with presence and faith, to restore our souls? place in the soul of the world, and to hold steady, amid and for it all.

"It blew me away. I underlined things on nearly every page." ?Anderson Cooper, All There IsThe Wild Edge of Sorrow offers hope and healing for a profoundly fractured world?and a pathway home to the brightness, pains, and gifts of being alive.Introducing the 5 gates of grief, psychotherapist Francis Weller explores how we move through the waters of grief and loss in a culture so fundamentally detached from the needs of the soul.? The first gate recognizes?and invites us to accept?the painful truth that everything we love, we will lose. With this acceptance comes beauty and responsibility?and an openness into which we can pour the full love of our hearts. At the first gate, we meet the sorrow of losing a loved one; the grief of illness; and the unique and profound pains that accompany loss by suicide.? The second gate helps us uncover and tend to the places that have not known love: the neglected pieces of our soul that need restoration and care. These ?places? can be our secret shames, or the parts of us that we feel are undeserving of love. At the second gate, we face our shadows and heal our most tender wounds.? The third gate meets us at the sorrows of the world, inviting us to open to the grave pain of our planet: the destruction of ecosystems, the harms of extractive capitalism, the unfathomable pain of war and occupation. We learn to honor and hold this grief even as we move through it, recommitting ourselves to the actions our souls call upon us to perform in service of healing and renewal.? The fourth gate, what we expected but did not receive, is present in each and every one of our lives. We may need love from a parent or partner unable to give it; we may lack the language to ask for the care we deserve. Each is a loss that must be acknowledged and grieved to move toward wholeness.? The fifth gate opens to our ancestral grief: the traumas, pains, losses, and unrealized dreams of those who came before us. Weller invites us to reconnect to our bodies, our communities, and the ancestral knowledge we hold in our bones...but may have forgotten.Profoundly moving, beautifully written, this book is a balm for the soul and a necessary salve for moving together through difficult times. Grounded in ritual and connection, The Wild Edge of Sorrow welcomes each grief with care and attention, opening us to the feelings, experiences, and sacred knowledge that connect us to each other and ultimately make us whole.

Inspired by Afrofuturism and African spiritual traditions, this beautifully illustrated oracle deck is an invitation to connect deeply with your ancestors, the land, and the 9 realmsIncludes a 200-page guidebookNothing is devoid of spirit. The Old Ways are calling to us, asking us to return to the future sooner than later. Discover plant allies and how to use them for healing and connecting to the realms. Rebuild and restore your relationship with the natural world inside and outside yourself. Participate in ritual. Commune with nature. Build relationship with ancestral energies.For BIPOC healers, diviners, and metaphysical enthusiasts, this beautifully illustrated 50-card deck connects you to the living world through meditative practices. This deck allows you to spiritually connect to yourself and the environment in a way that isn?t defined or shaped as a response to whiteness.Each card has a title and an inspiring original illustration by Jonathon Stalls. Using the guide book, you can access different corresponding features: ritual and herbs; planetary and zodiac correspondence; and medicine of the 9 realms:The object realmThe physical realmThe ethereal realmThe astral realmThe mental realmThe intuition realmThe ancestral realmThe coincidental realmThe mythic realmThe Afro Fantasy Walking Tree Oracle can also be used as a diagnostic tool to connect the reader to ritual and medicine in nature.

Unapologetically anti-Zionist and firmly rooted in Jewish spiritual values?a liberatory model for Jewish healing Body-based tools and faith-based practices for processing trauma, reclaiming our agency, and building a world where "never again" means "never again for anyone""...an accessible pathway for healing from historical trauma, releasing it from our bodies, and preventing it from being passed on to future generations. This may well be the missing piece for breaking the pattern of violence undergirding Israeli apartheid and occupation.??Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World Dr. Wendy Elisheva Somerson, PhD, shows how Jewish history lives in Jewish bodies?and how antisemitism and oppression disrupt our access to safety, dignity, and belonging. This unmetabolized trauma can lock us into a survival state that brings historical grief into the present moment…and keep us from exploring critical questions that help us tend our legacies and live into a better world.How does ancestral grief live on in our bodies and keep us from feeling safe?and how is that fear enacted on other peoples? How do we reconcile a history of persecution with the state power of Israel today?Each chapter invites us back into the body, exploring healing as a spiritual and political reclamation. With skills-based wisdom for trauma, safety, spiritually grounded intentions, and resourcing ourselves for difficult conversations, this book also helps readers understand: Trauma and healing through our bodiesJewish longing, belonging, legacies of assimilationHealing shame?of not being Jewish enough, of being too much, and of being complicitEmbodied experiences of Jewish resilience, ritual, and griefRooted in justice, care, and spiritual depth, this book asks us to live into a Judaism beyond Zionism. It invites us to heal toward liberation?to reclaim Jewish faith and release Jewish identity from the colonial project of Israel in power, skill, and community.

The beloved best-selling classic for the modern herbalist?a definitive guide to 250 safe and effective herbal medicines, preparations, and single-herb remedies to make at home.This comprehensive, full-color guide offers detailed and easy-to-follow instructions for making and using approximately 250 all-natural DIY herbal medicines. With practical tips, in-depth preparation techniques, and an inside look at some of the authors? own favorite formulas, The Modern Herbal Dispensatory walks beginners and advanced herbalists alike through:? The 12 major categories of herbs, from aromatic to sweet? Herbal preparations: the many ways to prepare and use herbs, from capsules and tinctures to standardized extracts and essential oils? Choosing the best dosage form for each category of herb? How to harvest, dry, and use fresh herbs? Extractions: terms, equipment, solvents, and calculations, plus how to extract herbs in water, alcohol, glycerin, and vinegar? Advanced techniques: like percolation extracts, fluid extracts, and soxhlet extracts? Preparations like oil-based extractions, topical applications, concentrates, lozenges, traditional Chinese methods, and more? Formulas and dosages: how to design herbal formulas and use herbs safely and effectively? Herbal insights and need-to-know wisdom, like why different preparations of the same herb affect the body differently; which herbs are medicinal when dry, but could be toxic when fresh; and why beginners typically see more potent results with formulations versus single-herb preparationsThe text includes multiple appendices, recommendations for further reading, in-depth full-color photo guides, and a helpful index. With advice on herbal preparations for 100+ illnesses and conditions and a comprehensive materia medica, The Modern Herbal Dispensatory is an enduring classic and beloved plant-medicine reference manual for herbalists, natural medicine practitioners, and anyone seeking safe, holistic, at-home care and inexpensive all-natural remedies.

Volume 2 of the bestselling guide for yoga teachers?design fresh, confident, and  dynamic classes your students will love 54 inspired new themes: a full year of templates to engage, retain, and connect with your studentsThis companion volume?with all-new material?offers 54 ready-made ideas and templates to elevate your classes, refine your voice, and teach inspired themes with joy and confidence.Each chapter?like Rise to Joy, Less is More, and Rebel, Yogi!?introduces a series of updated themes. Authors Sage Rountree and Alexandra DeSiato offer practical upgrades to the bestselling first volume of Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, with new prompts, expanded notes, and thoughtful cues to help you connect with students and center their experiences in class. Each template offers useful guidance on:Expounding on your theme and connecting it to both personal and universal experiencesChants, quotes, mantras, poems, or songsSpecific practices that work with your themeDistilling your theme to a short sentence or intention for your classTakeaway ideas and helpful notesAny of the 54 class themes can be used as-is or molded to embody your own personal teaching style and authentic voice. Each includes insightful options for opening your class, suggestions for what to say during movements and pauses, and helpful ideas for closing out strong. Grounded in the knowledge that yoga philosophy is applicable to our daily lives?and its wisdom is for all of us?this book offers adaptable and easy-to-use ways to transform your classes, empower your students, and build richer, more meaningful connections by teaching beyond the poses and into the world.

Dr. Stanley Rosenberg, PhD, offers an easy-to-understand overview of the vagus nerve-and helps you regulate your body's innate capacity to heal from stress, trauma, anxiety, and injury. Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve dispels long-held myths about the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and offers readers a map to three neural circuits that are integral to whole-body healing and emotional wellness: the ventral vagal complex, the sympathetic nervous system, and the dorsal vagal complex. Based on Stephen Porges's Polyvagal Theory, this book shows how each circuit shapes our sense of safety, connections with others, and resilience to stress, trauma, and inflammatory diseases like arthritis. You'll learn: • How to identify-and heal from-symptoms of ANS dysfunction • Somatic self-help exercises that are safe, effective, and easy to learn • Neurofascial release, migraine massage, and other hands-on techniques • Polyvagal applications for stress, anxiety, ADHD, fibromyalgia, PTSD, chronic pain, and more • How restoring health to the vagus nerve can enhance function throughout your whole body This book is written for therapists, bodyworkers, trauma survivors, parents, and anyone struggling with chronic, embodied stress. Grounded in neurobiology research, clinical stories, and easy-to-follow exercises, this book gives you the tools to bring your body back into a state of safety, balance, and optimal functioning.

A provocative and deeply important study of women’s lives, women’s choices—and an ‘unspoken taboo’—that questions the societal pressures forcing women into motherhood Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research interviewing women from a variety of socioeconomic, educational, and professional backgrounds, sociologist Orna Donath treats regret as a feminist issue: as regret marks the road not taken, we need to consider whether alternative paths for women currently are blocked off. She asks that we pay attention to what is forbidden by rules governing motherhood, time, and emotion, including the cultural assumption that motherhood is a “natural” role for women—for the sake of all women, not just those who regret becoming mothers. If we are disturbed by the idea that a woman might regret becoming a mother, Donath says, our response should not be to silence and shame these women; rather, we need to ask honest and difficult questions about how society pushes women into motherhood and why those who reconsider it are still seen as a danger to the status quo. Groundbreaking, thoughtful, and provocative, this is an especially needed book in our current political climate, as women's reproductive rights continue to be at the forefront of national debates.