What if many therapies and self-help programs are teaching us to override the intelligence of our bodies?
Connie Lawrence, a trauma therapist for more than twenty years, shares her unlikely journey from a wistful romance to finding a backbone-and eventually to a new pathway of working with the intelligence of the body rather than automatically calming and soothing-the go-to in therapy and the self-help world. She offers a new way forward - part of a leading edge science of somatic transformation.
The unique angle of this book, aside from challenging the myths of traditional therapy and Western patriarchy, is the connection to evolution. Our bodies evolved to be soft-hearted creatures that lean on each other for survival. Women, in particular, developed keen ways of sensing danger, detecting changes in the environment, and shifts in relationships that kept tribes alive for millions of years.
Yet today, however, these ways of knowing are often pathologized and misunderstood. "Too sensitive." "Overreacting". We are taught to calm down, settle down, quiet down.
Wise Bones invites the reader to reconnect with the grounded wisdom and aliveness moving through the body-and to remember what the modern world taught us to forget. This book is engaging and relatable with storytelling, body-based reflections, and anthropology. With a world in trouble, this is a call to awaken the wisdom of our bones.