David treleaven book6/1/2023 ![]() Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness offers answers to this question. This raises a crucial question for mindfulness teachers, trauma professionals and survivors everywhere: How can we minimise the potential dangers of mindfulness for survivors while leveraging its powerful benefits? Instructed to pay close, sustained attention to their inner world, survivors can experience flashbacks, dissociation and even retraumatisation. ![]() But the reality is not so simple.ĭrawing on a decade of research and clinical experience, psychotherapist and educator David Treleaven shows that mindfulness meditation-practised without an awareness of trauma-can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. This means that anywhere mindfulness is being practised, someone in the room is likely to be struggling with trauma.Īt first glance, this appears to be a good thing: trauma creates stress and mindfulness is a proven tool for reducing it. At the same time, trauma remains a fact of life: the majority of us will experience a traumatic event in our lifetime and up to 20% of us will develop posttraumatic stress. ![]() ![]() From elementary schools to psychotherapy offices, mindfulness meditation is an increasingly mainstream practice. ![]()
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