Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing represents the culmination of Dr. Gordon's fifty years as a practitioner, teacher and advocate of integrative approaches to overcoming psychological trauma and stress.
Offering eye-opening research, innovative prescriptive support, and inspirational stories, Transforming Trauma for the first time gives the reading public clear guidance in the methods that Dr. Gordon has developed and that he and his team have used to relieve the suffering of hundreds of thousands of children and adults around the world.
Dr. Gordon's work is grounded in a basic understanding:
- Trauma will come to all of us, sooner or later
- Each of us has the capacity to understand and heal ourselves
In Transforming Trauma, Dr. Gordon delivers an inviting narrative that allows readers to easily use his step-by-step evidence-based program—which so many others have used—to reverse the psychological and biological damage that trauma causes, and to restore their hope and heal themselves.
This is a field-tested approach to whole health.
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In his role as the Founder and CEO of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), Dr. Gordon has created and implemented what may well be the world’s largest and most effective program for healing population-wide trauma.
Dr. Gordon leads a global faculty of 145 and a US-based staff of 26 who have trained more than 7,000 clinicians, educators, and community leaders in CMBM’s model. Those who have experienced CMBM’s training have spread its therapeutic and educational programs to hundreds of thousands of traumatized and stressed people, and people confronting the challenges of anxiety, depression, and chronic and life-threatening illnesses.
A peace-maker and consensus-builder, Dr. Gordon is known for cross-cultural relationship building, as well as deep life-changing therapeutic work with individuals, families, and groups. For more than 30 years, he has led CMBM teams in relieving population-wide psychological trauma: in ongoing conflict zones in Ukraine; during and after wars in the Balkans, the Middle East, and South Sudan; after climate related disasters in Louisiana, Texas, California, Puerto Rico, and Haiti; in schools affected by mass shootings in Uvalde, TX and Broward County; in communities impacted by systemic and historical racism in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and Baton Rouge; and with active duty U.S. military and veterans and their families.
