Drawing on a decade of research and clinical experience, psychotherapist and educator David Treleaven shows that mindfulness meditation-practiced without an awareness of trauma-can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. At first glance, this appears to be a good thing: trauma creates stress, and mindfulness is a proven tool for reducing it. This means that anywhere mindfulness is being practiced, someone in the room is likely to be struggling with trauma. At the same time, trauma remains a fact of life: the majority of us will experience a traumatic event in our lifetime, and up to twenty percent of us will develop posttraumatic stress. Print Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness - Practices for Safe and Transformative Healingįrom elementary schools to psychotherapy offices, mindfulness meditation is an increasingly mainstream practice.
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