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Widen the Window : Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover From Trauma by Elizabeth A. Stanley, PhD is a health book available to read on EtoBox.

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"I don't think I've ever read a book that paints such a complex and accurate landscape of what it is like to live with the legacy of trauma as this book does, while offering a comprehensive approach to healing." --from the foreword by Bessel van der Kolk A pioneering researcher gives us a new understanding of stress and trauma, as well as the tools to heal and thrive Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging. Trauma is our response to an experience in which we feel powerless or lacking agency. Until now, researchers have treated these conditions as different, but they actually lie along a continuum. Dr. Elizabeth Stanley explains the significance of this continuum, how it affects our resilience in the face of challenge, and why an event that's stressful for one person can be traumatizing for another. This groundbreaking book examines the cultural norms that impede resilience in America, especially our collective tendency to disconnect stress from its potentially extreme consequences and override our need to recover. It explains the science of how to direct our attention to perform under stress and recover from trauma. Wi

Who reads Widen the Window : Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover From Trauma?

Author

Elizabeth A. Stanley, PhD

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780735216594

Category

health

Subjects

Management, Body Mind & Spirit, Psychology

Rating

4.6 / 5 (338 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14