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Sounds True.com. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today I speak with Peter Levine.

Peter is an expert on treating stress and trauma with over 45 years experience in the field.

His somatic approach has helped countless individuals cope with a wide variety of traumatic experiences.

He's the author of several sounds true programs, including the book CD, healing trauma, and an audio program

designed to help guide children through traumatic events, called It Won't Hurt Forever.

On September 20th, Peter will also be presenting the Healing Trauma Online Course,

a step-by-step program for restoring the wisdom of the body, a course designed to teach you

how to release energy from traumatic episodes and restore harmony and balance in the body.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge,

Peter and I explore his body-based approach to trauma,

trauma's connection to stress, and Peter offers some practical advice on how to deal

with trauma that you may be experiencing even as you listen. Here's my conversation with a true pioneer, Peter Levine.

Peter, you're an expert on healing trauma and in the last 10 to 15 years this whole idea

that many of us have suffered from trauma and that it's important to focus on the healing of trauma. It seems like this is an emerging idea that's now in the center of our conversation as a collective, whereas previously, back, you know, more than 15 years ago, it was something that was more hidden.

People didn't really talk about trauma, and it was more of a kind of underground topic. What do you think has

changed in the last 10 to 15 years? That's an interesting question Tammy. I don't

know if I'm probably more of a trauma monomaniac than an expert

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