Peter Levine

American psychologist who developed Somatic Experiencing for trauma. Author of Waking the Tiger (1997) and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.

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Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.
Peter Levinepsychology
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.
Peter Levinepsychology

Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.

The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.