The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma

 A world-recognized authority and acclaimed mind-body medicine pioneer presents the first evidence-based program for trauma healing to reverse the psychological and biological damage caused by trauma.

Filled with practical self-care tools to alleviate stress, anxiety, fear, and sleeplessness.

In his role as the founder and executive director 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 psychological trauma. He and 130 international faculty have brought this program to populations as diverse as refugees from wars in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Africa; firefighters and U.S. military personnel and their families; student/parent/teacher school shooting survivors; and Native American children – as well as stressed out professionals, stay-at-home mothers, inner-city children, and people struggling with mental and physical disorders and end of life challenges.

Dr. Gordon’s work is grounded in scientific evidence and timeless wisdom. Through his decades of first-hand experience, he understands that trauma will come to all of us sooner or later. That each of us has the capacity to understand and heal ourselves from the symptoms of PTSD. And that the heartbreaking devastation that trauma causes can also open our hearts and minds to deeper understanding, enhanced meaning and purpose, and greater love.

In the compassionate, compelling pages of Transforming Trauma, he invites us on a step-by-step, evidence-based journey of self-healing to heal the psychological and biological damage that trauma brings and to become the people whom we are meant to be.

This groundbreaking book offers a complete program for recovery, presenting proven techniques to help you reclaim your life from trauma:

• Mind-Body Skills: Learn the foundational meditation technique, Soft Belly breathing, used to quiet the fight-or-flight response, calm anxiety, and reverse the biological damage of stress.
• The Trauma-Healing Diet: Discover which foods and supplements can repair your gut, rebalance your brain chemistry, and break the cycle of stress-induced comfort eating.
• Post-Traumatic Growth: Understand the science of how to transform heartbreaking devastation into a life of deeper meaning, purpose, and connection.
• Healing Childhood Wounds: Address the lasting impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with compassionate, evidence-based tools for self-awareness and recovery.

Dr. James Gordon is a Harvard-educated psychiatrist, former researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, and a clinical professor of psychiatry and family medicine at Georgetown Medical School. He has written for the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, as well as numerous professional journals, and has been featured on 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and NPR.