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“Embark on a transformative journey with our featured books! ‘Integrity Recovery’ by Daniel Blackwood guides you through a profound exploration of personal growth, offering insightful strategies to overcome challenges and build a life of authenticity and resilience. Meanwhile, ‘Mindfulness Based Somatic Emotional Processing’ co-authored by Daniel Blackwood and Robert Weisz invites you to discover the power of mindfulness in navigating emotions. This insightful guide combines mindfulness practices with somatic techniques, providing a holistic approach to emotional well-being. Elevate your mind, body, and spirit with these empowering reads!”

Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing: A Guide for Patients and Therapists

A guide for working with emotions and unprocessed traumas

By Robert Weisz, PhD and

Daniel Blackwood, MA

Developed by Robert Weisz, PhD, Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing (MBSEP) is a simple practice that combines mindfulness and somatic perception to help regulate emotions and process traumas that are stored in the body. The authors explain the tools and techniques of MBSEP, and demonstrate these concepts and methods through decades of case studies.

Weisz and Blackwood explain how we are emotional beings who feel and experience our emotions in our bodies. They explain the contrast between the somatic, body-based experience of emotions as opposed to the mental, cognitively-based stories, explanations, and judgments of the thinking mind.

The authors explain the “struggle factor” and why it is futile to struggle against having negative emotions. They describe how to be mindfully present with emotional states like anxiety, anger, and grief and detail the healing influence of compassionate attention. Their methods foster neuroplasticity to create and expand neuronal linkages in the brain and nervous system. They also show how MBSEP can be integrated with other healing modalities.

Revealing how we can access the hidden truths within our feelings, this guide presents an effective protocol for processing emotions and for emotional regulation.

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Minding The Body, Embodying The Mind

Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing:

A Guide for Laypersons and Therapists

By Robert Weisz, PhD and

Daniel Blackwood, MA

Why We Wrote This Book:

In our work as psychotherapists, we have found, and have consistently confirmed over the past ten years, that MBSEP offers clients an elegant , accessible, and flexible approach for facilitating effective emotional regulation and for supporting deep, productive emotional processing in counseling and psychotherapy. We also found that MBSEP is a simple and accessible practice for clients and other who want to invest in supporting their ongoing emotional self-maintenance, improving their emotional well-being, and for enhancing their personal growth.

Our target audience for this book was initially the universe of “helping professionals:” counselors, psychotherapists, social workers, and others in the healthcare professions. We also considered that the basic practice of MBSEP incorporates a valuable set of tools for the general reader who is motivated to invest in emotional growth, well-being, and emotional maintenance. After a few months of discussion, during which we considered the alternative of writing two separate books directed at two different populations, we agreed that the book should be made accessible, useful, and understandable to both the lay reader and the helping professional.

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Integrity Recovery – Find Your True Self

The Recovery Workbook

By Daniel Blackwood, MA

For me, as a man who is recovering from the effects of abandonment and decades of co- dependent charading, I find mindfulness to be a powerful way to stay on my path of practicing integrity. Mindfulness is a word from Sanskrit origins, which means awareness. Awareness brings us into the moment, which is the pathway to being well. While this makes practical sense and sounds so good, make no mistake about this, we live in a world that is filled with lack of awareness, that emphasizes external focus and outcome driven processes. The practice of mindfulness (being aware) puts our focus on process, trusting that outcomes will take care of themselves. This greatly contributes to a sense of peace and wellness – to not having to worry about outcomes.

The practice of mindfulness requires no religious or spiritual orientation and at the same time people of all religions, cultures, and spiritual orientation can benefit from it. Some people need a structured orientation to mindfulness, which incorporates meditation as part of the practice. Others need the freedom to create, innovate, and find their own way to practice mindfully. This collective work, “Preparing for Integrity Recovery,” “Integrity Recovery,” and “Practicing Integrity,” is designed to help you discover what works for you.

It is helpful to remember the driving-on-the-road analogy as you go through life. Remembering this analogy will help you to be compassionate and less judgmental with yourself and others. Life is like driving on the road. We are less likely to drive off the road the closer to the middle we are (middle way). In awareness we stay true to our path. When we are adrift or lost in thought (not being mindful) we may go off the road. Sometimes we may just go a little off the road. Other times we may roll into the swamp and need a tow truck.

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Other Notable Reads:

AWE

The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

In ‘Awe’, Dacher Keltner examines how awe-inspiring experiences, such as admiring nature or listening to music, can boost well-being, empathy, and creativity. He suggests that cultivating awe can lead to a more meaningful and fulfilling life.

Seeking Safety Adolescent Toolkit

A Supplement to Seeking Safety

The Seeking Safety Adolescent Toolkit was written by Summer Krause LPC, CADCIII, CCTP, in collaboration with Treatment Innovations. Summer is a senior Seeking Safety trainer who specializes in use of the model with adolescents. The Toolkit offers an exciting new option for those implementing Seeking Safety with adolescents to address the developmental needs of that population.

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