The Heart of Trauma

How each of us can become a therapeutic presence in the world.

The ability to offer the safe sanctuary of presence is central to treating trauma and therapeutic practice. This book offers brain- and body-based insights and skills for the reader to heal not only clients but also themselves.

“"Throughout this book, Bonnie Badenoch demonstrates how research in neuroscience helps us to find effective ways to heal from the damaging effects of trauma in our lives. Every few pages she invites us to pause to meditate on our own experience and understanding of the guiding principles of healing being explored. Adding to the overall quality and effectiveness of this book is the atmospheric quality of compassion that invites us to experience the healing power of learning to being tender-hearted toward ourselves and others in the midst of our difficulties. The process of neuroscience, expanding into personal experience, expanding into compassionate love, expands into an open-ended invitation for us to ponder the spiritual depths in which we as human beings seek to find the ultimate meaning of our lives."”

"Badenoch’s readers will find a rich, thoughtful and above all heartful account of the impact of trauma, and the healing power of the sanctuary of relational presence." -- SCAP Magazine

Bonnie Badenoch, MA, LMFT, is a marriage and family therapist. mentor, and speaker. She is executive director of the nonprofit Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind in Vancouver, WA, offering support to those in the healthcare professions through year-long immersion trainings in interpersonal neurobiology. Stephen W. Porges, PhD, originator of Polyvagal Theory, is a Distinguished University Scientist and founding director of the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at Indiana University, and a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina. He lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida.

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