The Mind-Body Stress Reset: Somatic Practices to Reduce Overwhelm and Increase Well-Being

I found LaDyne's book really helpful. I teach mindfulness meditation and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, and although the Mindfulness practices I teach are incredibly useful for many people, I have as a teacher encountered some folks that find meditation increases rather than decreases their anxiety and stress response. This book is for them and for anyone who teaches meditation practices. Healing is not a one-size-fits-all thing, and LaDyne skillfully shares practices or adaptations to practices that can help support those dealing with a high degree of acute stress (or anyone!).She shares the science of the brain and the stress response in a clear, readable way, and intersperses personal stories that helps to make it relatable and relevant.I recommend this book for anyone dealing with a high degree of stress and anxiety, especially if you have found that meditation and/or talk therapy have not helped you in the way you had hoped. I think it is also useful and important reading for anyone teaching mindfulness meditation and other healing practices.

Great book with several somatic exercises, well explained and how and where to use them. Useful for very stressful situations, traumas flashbacks.If you're new to somatic exercises and the nervous system, you may need to read some theory about it to understand some of the concepts in the book.I will buy a paper copy. I have the kindle version.

As a primary care physician caring for people living with chronic stress and overwhelm The Mind-Body Stress Reset is a welcome addition to my clinical toolbox - one that I confidently share with patients and colleagues. Rebekkah brings her personal and professional experience to the conversation in an empathetic, easily relatable and humorous way that engages the reader and offers a very practical approach to better understanding and managing engrained patterns of thinking and feeling. Her explanation about what's happening and why is clear and data driven. The exercises that accompany each chapter offer a tangible way to being to engage in somatic work and move toward healthier stress response patterns and pathways. I highly recommend this book to anyone struggling with stress and overwhelm!

I purchased this book for some personal learning, as well as to support my clinical work in psychology. Overall it presented a good introduction to somatic practices - essentially retraining the nervous system to more readily navigate towards regulation. I particularly appreciated learning to focus more on my body's sensations associated with safety and regulation, and about stress imprinting.In terms of the layout, at times it felt a little clunky and could benefit from being more concise. I thought there was too much time spent discussing why mindfulness and exposure therapy may be unhelpful for those who are particularly stressed. To my mind, somatic practices appear to incorporate elements of both mindfulness and graduated exposure. Maybe the important distinction is that of intensity, which I think the author did a good job of addressing with frequent reminders to take a gentle approach. As a side note, I would like to understand at which point focusing attention toward "safe" parts of the body, in essence becomes a form of avoidance of uncomfortable or distressing sensations. I'm sure there is good rationale; it's just something I would have like to have seen discussed further. Maybe a better distinction between stress and anxiety would have helped also, as they appeared to be used interchangeably at times.A final critique, which I admit is more of a personal gripe with modalities of this nature, is they can have a tendency to reduce human suffering to a range of neurological processes, that we can 'hack' or modify to suit our needs. This seems reductive at times, and fails to accomodate the broader systems and narratives that bring life and healing (i.e. families, communities, meaning, purpose). I don't think a book like this is intended to address the 'big picture' concerns, but maybe a little wider scope would help to add value here.

An excellent overview of somatic healing for handling negative behaviors evolved from past experiences which leave a negative footprint within our brains and within the body .Somatic Healing therapy will help us become resilient to stresses and triggers as we humans are learning how to overcome negative things from our past which the body never forgets.

As an SEP myself, I appreciate having such a clear and simple resource to share with my clients, which reiterates the work we do together in session. This is not necessarily a "how to" book, yet provides clear "practices" to implement daily in a hectic stressful world.

As a therapist and self proclaimed stressed out person, I thought this book gave easy and practical somatic tools to settle a stressed out system. Burn out is real, and everyone needs tools they can use on their own to self regulate. I highly recommend this book!

This is among the most valuable books I’ve ever read about taking control of our trauma responses. The psychoeducation part is spot on and the systematic exercises to calm ourselves down are specific and so helpful.

A lovely, compassionate book with a great overview of mind-body work. Really pleasurable and useful!

Ich befasse mich seit Jahren mit Büchern und Therapiemethoden zur Traumaheilung und Stressbewältigung. Dieses Buch fasst alle guten Bücher, die ich gelesen habe, zusammen, bietet neue tiefere Ansätze und ist dabei Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe. Es ist inzwischen auch auf deutsch erschienen.

I just finished reading Rebekkah LaDynes book and I highly recommend it! Anyone interested in a somatic approach for managing stress or overwhelm, this book gives you hands on exercises as well as scientific research in the field. It well illustrates our ability to self regulate with the right support. And one kind of support is adding more tools in our toolbox, which this book is full of. There is so much we can do ourselves!As a Holistic Therapist using SE™ on a daily basis, I recommend this book for anyone interested in the subject and would like to grow their own toolbox.

The book felt like an easy and gentle guide to something very helpful. It never felt heavy. Infact her repeated reminders 'less is more, more is too much' were very helpful for my mind to relax and take it easy.

Really good awareness and educating great to get what you want for body and mind great read with great techniques to work on