Peter Levine — 💊 Healing Quote

Healing happens when someone bears compassionate witness to our suffering.

“Trauma is not what happens to us but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness”

Healing happens when someone bears compassionate witness to our suffering.

“Traumatic symptoms are not caused by the event itself they arise when residual energy from the experience is not discharged from the body”

— Peter Levine

“The healing of trauma is a natural process that can be accessed through an inner awareness of the body”

— Peter Levine

“Healing trauma is not about remembering it is about the body releasing what it has held”

— Peter Levine

“The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect and healing unlocks that transformation”

— Peter Levine