Freedom from Pain

Guided Practices to Overcome Physical Pain

By: PhD Maggie Phillips, Peter Levine

Narrated by: Peter Levine

Healing Physical and Emotional Trauma, A Key to Long-Term Pain Relief

For those suffering chronic pain—even after years of surgery, rehabilitation and medication—only one question matters: How do I find lasting relief?With Freedom from Pain, two pioneers in the field address a crucial missing factor essential to long-term recovery—healing the unresolved emotional trauma held within the body.

The path out of pain is unique for each one of us, explain Peter Levine and Maggie Phillips. It’s a labyrinth shaped by physical injury, genetics, learned responses, and—crucially—prior traumatic events and suppressed emotions. When all of these elements are successfully addressed, true recovery becomes possible. This program will help you to initiate that shift.

Informed by their founding work in the Somatic Experiencing® process and unique insights gleaned from decades of clinical success, Drs. Levine and Philips will show you how to:

Calm the body’s over-reactive "fight" response to pain
• Release the fear, frustration, and depression intensified by prior traumas
• Build inner resilience and self-regulation
• Relieve pain caused by the aftermath of injuries, surgical procedures, joint and muscle conditions, migraines, and more
Whether you’re seeking to begin a self-care strategy or amplify your current treatment program, Freedom from Pain will provide you with proven tools to help you experience long-term relief.

Course objectives:

Discuss how to release the fear, frustration, and depression intensified by prior traumas, thereby lessening pain in the body.
• Apply the founding work of the Somatic Experiencing process to relieve pain caused by the aftermath of injuries, surgical procedures, joint and muscle conditions, migraines, and more.
• Practice exercises that build inner resilience and self-regulation supporting recovery from pain syndromes.
• Utilize exercises to calm the body's over-reactive fight response to pain and other proven tools to help you experience long-term relief.

Helpful worth doing

Some exercises work better than others. Easy to come back to or have in the background when trying. I have fibromyalgia to the point of disability and some of these help.

Must do exercises for chronic pain!

Short and to the point. I used it for back pain in the past and now again for knee pain.

Practical and Effective

This audiobook was very clear and in excellence of practicality. Various strategies are taught and very effective.

okay

Didn't really learn anything new that I didn't already didn't know. I have lived with pain for too many years

Didn’t deliver on what the intro promised

I was disappointed when this short book ended because the introduction seemed to promise much more substance than the book actually delivered.