Hello and welcome to being well I'm Forrest Hanson. I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick

Hanson so Dad how are you doing today?

I'm good and it is a pleasure and an honor to be able to talk with Peter here

who I've admired enormously and learned a lot from myself.

Well, that's fantastic, yeah, absolutely.

And as you just said, today we have the pleasure of welcoming a truly world-class expert

on the subject of trauma to the show, Dr. Peter Levine. So Dr Levine has worked in the

field of stress and trauma for over 40 years and is the developer of

somatic experiencing a body-oriented clinical method that's highly effective in dealing with the effects of

overwhelm on our nervous system.

He's received a lifetime achievement ward from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy and the Honorary Reese Davis Chair and

Child Psychiatry. Dr. Levine is also the author of the best-selling classic book on trauma

Waking the Tiger. He's authored and co-authored several other fantastic books, including healing trauma in an unspoken voice and trauma and memory.

Our conversation today with Peter focuses on his work with somatic experiencing and particularly what it's been like for him to work with clients of different kinds and the practices that he's brought forward in that space.

This particularly focuses on the body and the way in which the body interacts with and holds trauma.

Although there's a lot of material in here that's aimed at practitioners and the therapeutic space,

I think that the episode is chock full of great advice for people trying to work through their old challenging experiences in a more

self-help kind of way. Particularly, Peter gives some great advice on Empathic

atonement and the ways in which we can become more aware of the inner worlds of other people.

As with all of our episodes that are related to challenging experiences of different kinds, please

be kind to yourself while listening here. This episode includes

descriptions of specific traumatic events including particularly a couple of

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