More than any specific modality, what I got from the book was confirmation that the way to heal developmental trauma is to create a safe space and then to engage with it. As opposed to seek to hide it or cover it up pharmaceutically as recommended by Big Pharma.
Practices I have found to be useful in dealing with childhood physical abuse and chronic emotional abuse:
- sauna/cold plunge (incredibly useful way to trigger fight or flight and learn to deal with conditioned fear response)
- pushups, pullups, yoga
- breath awareness and compassion meditations
- metric shit-tons of journaling
- reading stories of trauma survivors
- psychoanalysis, up to a point
- talking to friends (the right ones)
