…talks about chronic stress, he says, starting from Peter Levine's statement, Another famous author, mentioned by many colleagues in this book, Peter Levine, is one of them, and he says that most of the time we hear ourselves in situations where we say, we…

…distant past, a kind of psycho-emotional time warp that prevents us from inhabiting the present moment. This is what the psychotherapist Peter Levine calls the tyranny of the past. Can you explain this process? Yes. First of all, thank you for having me on…

…us, is how to become free so we can be in the present moment connected to ourselves. The great trauma psychologist Peter Levine says, no longer living under the tyranny of the past. And it's totally available. It's totally possible. It is totally possible.…

…And now you're reacting as if that wound was happening all over again. This is what one of my friends in the trauma world, Peter Levine, calls the tyranny of the past. So something happens in the present and we react As if we're back there in the past…

…than that. There is body-based therapies, such as somatic experiencing developed by my friend and teacher, Peter, Dr. Peter Levine. There's sensory motor psychotherapy developed by Pat Ogden. There's EMDR that works for some people. There's internal family…

…and Bruce Perry's book, What Happened to You? Read Bruce Perry's book called The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog. I'm interviewing Peter Levine. Oh, you have? Oh, good. Oh, good. Wonderful. I'm glad to hear that. He's one of my mentors and friends. And we…

…in the first place. In fact, it's not that trauma that makes us disconnect. Trauma is the disconnection. And my friend Peter Levine, who is one of the world trauma experts, written a wonderful book, amongst many other wonderful books, called Waking the…

…to the world. They don't call it real book or authenticity book. They call it Facebook. Now my friend, the trauma psychologist, Peter Levine, talked about Botox. He wrote an article once about Botox that he knows of young women who Botox their faces. And…

…people, and a lot of people tell me it's going to be helpful to them. Or other talks, people talk about trauma, Peter Levine, Bessel van der Boek, any number of people. Check out these resources. Get support, intellectual support, get help or reach out…

…relying to be there for me doesn't show up, The woundedness of a one-year-old infant shows up. And that's what my friend Peter Levine calls the tyranny of the past. And so these early wounds, in my case, this sense of abandonment, could still show up…

…the nervous system, and especially if you take into account everything that his work shows and his colleagues like Bessel and Peter Levine and all that, Well, then it's actually kind of a heroic thing to try to reconfigure that in adulthood, especially…

…who we are. And it again goes back to very early days. I've often talked about something my friend, the great trauma psychologist pioneer Peter Levine said to me a couple of years ago. And Peter is, I think, a year or two older than I am. He's done…

…how do we recognize early signs of trauma activation let's say in our lives yeah well one of the great teachings of, uh, Peter Levine is that trauma is a disconnection, uh, from the self and from other people and so on. So, um, well, this trauma is…

…other I don't want to say lots of other people, but there are other people. delivering this kind of message. You know, Peter Levine on trauma, Bessel van der Kolk on trauma, Joan Borisenko on stress. Lots of people now, relatively speaking, compared to a…

…in the first place. In fact, it's not that trauma that makes us disconnect. Trauma is the disconnection. And my friend Peter Levine, who is one of the world trauma experts, written a wonderful book, amongst many other wonderful books, called Waking the…

…the panel with Alanis Morissette, Dan Siegel, who else is on the panel. Like all the famous people. Dick Schwartz. Richard Schwartz. Peter Levine. That's going to be a treat. So if you want to. And these people are people that I've learned from. So I…

…a huge number of different ways in which trauma makes itself known and felt. Can you give a little bit of that range? Peter Levine is one of the great trauma psychologists. He says that trauma is simply the most common and the most ignored cause of…

…going to be launched in mid-June. And that week when it's launched, I'll be in conversation every day with people like Peter Levine, a very famous trauma pioneer, Esther Perel on trauma and sexuality, Stephen Porges, great psychologist, does the work on the…

…I last believe that? I've been thinking about that question because a good friend of mine who's a great trauma therapist and pioneer, Peter Levine, said to me about a year ago, and I talked about this in the book, in The Myth of Normal, but I didn't…

…escape you speak of was so easy to be done through disassociation and just checking out of my body. So the Peter Levine somatic experiencing work has been so profound. And I love how you speak about trauma and addiction being inextricably linked because…

…and stress-inducing hormones in order to address asthma and certain chronic conditions because, and I think Peter talks about this, Peter Levine talks about this maybe, where the cortisol is so chronically high to the point of it being, in my opinion,…

…In teaching now, these terms are synonymous, but the idea of being empathic is trauma-informed because, you know, whether it's Peter Levine or Bessel van der Kolk, Babette Rothschild, like, really coming at it from this empathic, inside-out, i'm with you…

…Facebook itself, the name itself, Facebook. Think about it. You're presenting a face to the world. My friend, the psychologist Peter Levine, talks about mothers who Botox themselves, which means that the muscles relax so they can't smile at their kids in…

…on the past, but on dealing with how the past is showing up in the present. What a psychologist friend of mine, Peter Levine, calls the tyranny of the past, where the past dominates my present reactions. It doesn't matter how many times I go back…

…my book on addiction, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, but other books by People that I've learned from, like Bessel or Peter Levine and his books on trauma or his lectures on YouTube on trauma and many, many, many, many others. Those are easily accessible…

…upset. or you had some sad feelings, or you had some emotional pain. That's not the same as trauma. So as Peter Levine, the trauma psychologist, points out, all trauma is stressful, but not every stress is traumatic. When is it traumatic? It's traumatic…

…at any time. And so the, and if you look at the essence of trauma as my friend, the traumatologist, psychologist Peter Levine defines it, it's a disconnection from the self. And so when you didn't experience affirmation and love, you were just disconnected…

…them in a way that's a bit better than just saying they wrote this great book and they have, you know, Pete Levine founded Somayak Experiencing, you all know that, you all know about Gabor's books and Dan Sagat's lectures, you all know that. So…

…losing trust in your, what I'm calling yourself. So bingo, I did it. This is perfect timing. Thank you, Richard. Peter Levine, what is trauma? Okey-doke. A two-minute version. Trauma is when we're overwhelmed beyond our capacity to rebound. when we're not…

…from Gaza Mental Health, and she stood up and she said, Chaim, when you volunteered to come and work with Dr. Levine, I pray that something terrible would happen, that you would become traumatized again, because you, your people, have humiliated my people,…

…it so I'm just reading a wonderful book one of the best trauma books ever written by my friend and teacher and colleague Peter Levine called In an Unspoken Voice for which I actually wrote the foreword but I had not read the book in detail because it…

…and Bruce Perry's book, What Happened to You? Read Bruce Perry's book called The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog. I'm interviewing Peter Levine. Oh, you have? Oh, good. Oh, good. Wonderful. I'm glad to hear that. He's one of my mentors and friends. And we…

…And now you're reacting as if that wound was happening all over again. This is what one of my friends in the trauma world, Peter Levine, calls the tyranny of the past. So something happens in the present and we react As if we're back there in the past…

…really, really upset with somebody in your life, it's not the present, it's the past. Something got triggered from the past. And Peter Levine, the great trauma researcher, calls trauma the tyranny of the past. So I give examples of that. I'm not going to…

…I used to use should a lot. Yeah. This is good, but I should have done it better. So I mentioned the psychologist Peter Levine, who's a mentor and a friend, and him and I were just working together in Switzerland. And Peter and I were talking a…

…me, or we won't believe their affections. What did you say? Yeah, we won't believe we're loved, you know, or accepted. Well, Peter Levine, who's one of the great trauma teachers, He talked about trauma being the tyranny of the past. The attorney of the…

…stay that way. Number one. Number two, you have to reconnect with the body. There are various body therapies. My friend Peter Levine and his Somatic Experiencing. Is that Walking Tiger? Is that one of his books? Waking the Tiger. Waking the Tiger. Waking…

…way. You know? Number one. Number two, you have to reconnect with the body. There are various body therapies. My friend Peter Levine and his somatic experiencing. Is that Walking Tiger? Is that one of his books? Waking the Tiger. Waking the Tiger. Waking…

…escape. So what your body did to keep you safe is you immobilized. You immobilized. When animals are... This is the work of Peter Levine. I'm sure many of you know his work. When animals are... If you take a bear, for example, a polar bear, and you…