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The state of the world can no longer stay outside the therapy room. This book is a collection of articles by somatic therapists demonstrating the integration of social justice and community consciousness into clinical work. These articles are deeply personal as well as professional, offering the reader, regardless of their relationship to therapy, the opportunity to see how somatic therapy can weave a client's complete experience into their healing process. The book rests on the premise that what happens outside the room enters the room, and that clients, as they grow and change, bring their healing to the outer world, creating ripple effects on the larger society. Accessible for all readers, ""The World Walks With You Into Therapy: Social Justice, Somatics, and Healing,"" will add to the small but growing collection of works intended to integrate our complete selves -- body, mind, spirit, culture and citizens of a very troubled world - into the healing realm known as psychotherapy.

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""This book offers a brave and timely perspective on the role of psychotherapy in today's world, where we can no longer ignore the presence of the outside within the clinical setting. Somatic psychotherapy, as an inward process, and social justice work, as an outward movement, are woven together here in a necessary and visionary way. Working through the body to explore social and relational patterns brings hope, power, and transformation at a time when our world is aching for collective healing."" Shirley Dvir, PhD, LMFT, founder of Relational Somatic Healing. ""It has often been observed that Individualism - separation from each other and from the environment --- is a core feature of western civilization. We learn we should blame ourselves for our problems and try harder/work harder. Most forms of therapy, while trying to help people, have altered this mantra to ""Don't blame yourself, but you can do it. Try harder/work harder."" Such beliefs fail to address how intergenerational trauma, social injustice and inequalities, and personal histories of trauma live in our bodies and minds. When unaddressed, our ability to heal, relate to others, and connect to the earth is limited. This book, a diverse collection of therapeutic voices, offers insight and practical approaches to understanding our interconnectedness and to orienting ourselves to our bodies and our personal and collective histories in order to heal and reconnect. I think you will benefit from the antidote to individualism this book provides on your journey to wholeness."" Paul Kivel, social justice educator, activist, and author of Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice ""This timely collection offers a powerful lens into how somatic therapy integrates social justice and community, honoring the full journey of both therapist and client. As a former massage therapist and now psychiatrist, I found these pages inspiring for anyone dedicated to holistic, justice-oriented healing."" Arwen Podesta MD, DFAPA, DFASAM

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