Healing the Oppressed Body
A Therapeutic Guide for Radical Self-Liberation
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Healing the Oppressed Body
Narrated by:
Elena Rey
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Narrated by:
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Elena Rey
About this listen
There are many books on trauma healing that can change people’s lives. Yet when queer and trans people, people of color, and all of us living at the margins look for books that reflect our own experiences and that specifically name the oppression we experience as trauma, we’re left empty-handed. There’s little that speaks to the specific traumas we experience: homophobia, transphobia, institutional injustices, isolation, medical trauma, and discrimination at every turn. We deserve to have ourselves reflected and considered in the world of trauma recovery.
In Healing the Oppressed Body, somatic therapist Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik provides the best tools and approaches to healing trauma and filters them through an anti-oppression lens, making sure they’re uniquely impactful for all of us at the margins.
In these pages, you’ll learn how trauma is stored and processed by our minds and bodies and how we can work with our amazingly flexible brains and nervous systems to create pathways to healing. You’ll understand just how and why trauma that occurs in our earliest days can affect us throughout our lives. You’ll learn to embrace your Internal Family, making yourself whole. In Healing the Oppressed Body, Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik lovingly offers us the best, most radical solutions to tap into our sources of healing. Along the way, you’ll discover tools and techniques for emotional regulation and therapeutic modalities to heal from oppression-based trauma.
Whether inside the therapy room or on your own, in the pages of Healing the Oppressed Body, you’ll learn how to heal through growing compassion for all parts of yourself and others, finding community support and love, and celebrating the freedom to be your true self.
Critic Reviews
"Healing the Oppressed Body is a revelation. Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik potently reminds readers that the body is both archive and oracle. Offering a fierce and tender medicine for those of us carrying the weight of systems in our flesh. This book bridges somatic practice, political clarity, and ancestral remembrance. With precision and care, Healing the Oppressed Body shows that embodiment itself is a radical act of resistance, a pathway to sovereignty and collective repair. The book is a permission slip Home--reminding us that our bodies have always known the way home."
—Dr. Jennifer Mulan author of the national best seller Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma & Politicizing Your Practice
"Healing the Oppressed Body is a navigation guide that offers space, voice, and dignity to anyone relegated to the shadows of our society. This is the healing compass we need for those whom society has intentionally forgotten. This book will heal generations!"
—Dr. Mariel Buqué, bestselling author & owner of Break the Cycle
"Useful for therapists looking to understand how to integrate work on systemic and generational violence into their practice and for those seeking therapy who want to understand what is out there."
—Susan Raffo, author of Liberated to the Bone
"Brilliant! In Healing the Oppressed Body, Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik has helped to close the gap on our understanding of the intersection of discrimination and post-traumatic stress. She compassionately invites us to look through a multifaceted lens that accounts for generational, cultural, and personal life experiences and the ways that trauma and oppression take their toll on body and mind. This biopsychosocial perspective offers hope and a path forward."
—Arielle Schwartz, PhD, Psychologist, Award Winning Author of the Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook, and Founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy
—Dr. Jennifer Mulan author of the national best seller Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma & Politicizing Your Practice
"Healing the Oppressed Body is a navigation guide that offers space, voice, and dignity to anyone relegated to the shadows of our society. This is the healing compass we need for those whom society has intentionally forgotten. This book will heal generations!"
—Dr. Mariel Buqué, bestselling author & owner of Break the Cycle
"Useful for therapists looking to understand how to integrate work on systemic and generational violence into their practice and for those seeking therapy who want to understand what is out there."
—Susan Raffo, author of Liberated to the Bone
"Brilliant! In Healing the Oppressed Body, Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik has helped to close the gap on our understanding of the intersection of discrimination and post-traumatic stress. She compassionately invites us to look through a multifaceted lens that accounts for generational, cultural, and personal life experiences and the ways that trauma and oppression take their toll on body and mind. This biopsychosocial perspective offers hope and a path forward."
—Arielle Schwartz, PhD, Psychologist, Award Winning Author of the Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook, and Founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy
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