More than any specific modality, what I got from the book was confirmation that the way to heal developmental trauma is to create a safe space and then to engage with it. As opposed to seek to hide it or cover it up pharmaceutically as recommended by Big Pharma.

Practices I have found to be useful in dealing with childhood physical abuse and chronic emotional abuse:

- sauna/cold plunge (incredibly useful way to trigger fight or flight and learn to deal with conditioned fear response)

- pushups, pullups, yoga

- breath awareness and compassion meditations

- metric shit-tons of journaling

- reading stories of trauma survivors

- psychoanalysis, up to a point

- talking to friends (the right ones)

Thanks! I’ve been doing yoga, EMDR, and Somatic Experience and have found all helpful in different ways.