Healing begins when the body is allowed to speak

Some stories cannot be retold. Not because you've forgotten them, but because there were never words for them. You've stored them deep within your body. Tension, fear, shame, and sorrow have settled in your cells, your fascia, your breathing, and your nervous system. The knot in your stomach, the unease in your chest, your silence, your tension, your apparent strength: they all tell a story about what was once too big to process.

The primal pain of trauma takes you to the origin of your pain. It reveals a truth your mind may never have understood, but which your body has carried all along. A truth about early childhood neglect, about events that sometimes unfolded silently behind closed doors, about a birth with medical interventions, and about what you already felt when you were developing in a womb full of tension or silence. Do you want to buy The primal pain of trauma? This unique copy is already waiting for you.

The images in this book speak directly to your subconscious – raw, honest, and sometimes painful. The accompanying texts deepen the experience. This book is for anyone who feels something isn't right but never knew why, and who lives with inexplicable tension, fatigue, pain, fear, anger, frustrations, shame, or emptiness. This book is also for parents who want to understand their children better. And for professionals who want to learn to listen to what the body whispers.

The primal pain of trauma is not a book you read and put away. It is a book you open again and again whenever something within you wants to be remembered. A journey through pain, but also a homecoming to softness. A tribute to the body that is now finally allowed to speak.

A large, beautifully designed book

With touching images that speak directly to your subconscious and profound texts that deepen the experience – this is no ordinary book. It is an object that will stay with you.

About the author

Sandra Lagerweij is a psychosomatic trauma therapist, international educator, and expert by experience. She specializes in trauma that arises around conception, during pregnancy, at birth, and in early childhood. From her center Inner Journey, she provides therapeutic guidance and training worldwide.

Dutch | Hardcover | ISBN 9789463160957 | 344 pages