Trauma-sensitive mindfulness

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1. rendxJun 2024
   Can recommend "Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing" by David A. Treleaven on this particular subject, especially for people working in that space.
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2. KartoMar 2022
   This post reminds me of the book : Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, by David A. Treleaven. It explains how incompetent meditation can awaken and reinforce trauma, while a competently handled meditation can be part of the toolbox to heal it.
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3. rendxJan 2022
   Yes.

   See also https://www.amazon.com/Trauma-Sensitive-Mindfulness-Practice...

   "Drawing on a decade of research and clinical experience, psychotherapist and educator David Treleaven shows that mindfulness meditation ― practiced without an awareness of trauma ― can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. Instructed to pay close, sustained attention to their inner world, survivors can experience flashbacks, dissociation, and even retraumatization."

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