Restorative Embodiment and Resilience: A Guide to Disrupt Habits, Create Inner Peace, Deepen Relationships, and Feel Greater Presence

by Alan Fogel Ph.D., Stuart G. Shanker D. Phil. (Foreword by)

Overview

An expanded take on traditional Embodied Self-Awareness therapy, ideal for practitioners in all areas of body-focused work, including yoga, meditation, and somatic psychotherapy

Embodied Self-Awareness (ESA) is a somatic approach to treat trauma and other mental health concerns by helping people connect directly to thoughts, sensations, and emotions as they arise within the body. Here, psychologist Alan Fogel introduces Restorative ESA, an expansion of traditional ESA that incorporates three new and unique ESA states: Restorative, Modulated, and Dysregulated. Using a research-backed approach, Fogel explains their underlying neuroscience with concrete examples to illustrate how these states impact our personal and professional lives.
 
Fogel shows that wellness is more than the ability to moderate one’s inner state by regulating and tolerating emotions. By shi ing from states of doing to allowing, from activation to receptivity, and from thinking to felt experience, we can access the expansive power of the restorative state and heal the body, mind, and spirit.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781623175559
Publisher:	North Atlantic Books
Publication date:	09/28/2021
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

ALAN FOGEL, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of Utah and has been an active contributor to research on emotional development in human relationships from infancy through adulthood. His books include Developing through Relationships (1993, Chicago), Infancy: Infant, Family, and Society, 6th edition (2014, Sloan), and Body Sense: The Science and Practice of Embodied Self-Awareness (2013, Norton). Fogel is also a licensed massage therapist, a Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner and Senior Teacher, and founding editor of the Rosen Method International Journal. He has a part-time practice in Embodied Self-Awareness Consulting and Rosen Method Bodywork. Further information and links to publications can be found at http://www.alanfogelrosenmethod.abmp.com and at https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-fogel-701a03122. When not working, he finds restoration in gardening, singing and playing guitar, hiking and skiing in the mountains near his home in Salt Lake City, swimming and biking, and being with family and friends.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Preface xv

1 Embodied Self-Awareness: Staying in Touch-and Losing Touch-with Ourselves and Others 1

2 Three States of Embodied Self-Awareness and Four Forms of Felt Experience 37

3 Three States of Embodied Self Awareness: Felt Experience, Thinking, and Autonomic Nervous System Activation 75

4 The Felt Experience of Maintaining or Changing States of Embodied Self-Awareness 109

5 Out of the Ordinary: Pain, Eating, and Breathing during the Three States of Embodied Self-Awareness 139

6 How Our State of Embodied Self-Awareness Affects Emotional Experiences 175

7 Experiences of Restorative Embodied Self-Awareness: in Their Own Words 207

Acknowledgments 233

Notes 235

Index 271

About the Author 279

Editorial Reviews

"This book slowed me down, woke me up, and brought me home. This is the handbook for transmuting fear, grief, and anger into peace, quiet acceptance, love, and open-hearted connection. A gem."
—AMANDA BLAKE, Master Somatic Coach, Embright founder, and author of Your Body Is Your Brain

"If there was ever a time for Restorative Embodied Self-Awareness—‘a sense of peace, safety, connection, oneness, and being completely in the present moment’—this is it! Savor these pages and stay tuned for wonderful case examples and exercises that provide a pathway to deep well-being."
—TINA STROMSTED, PhD, LMFT, Jungian psychoanalyst, movement therapist, somatics educator, and director of Soul’s Body Center

"Displaying compassion, a breadth of interdisciplinary research, and a wisdom born of personal experience, ... Fogel offers the reader tools ... to access a newly described state of restoration, one in which the work of metabolizing our life’s experience can take place."
—PHILIP SHEPHERD, author of Radical Wholeness and New Self, New World

"Fogel explains how feelings such as awe in nature, transcendence, and spiritual connection transform our sense of ourselves and our being in the world. A useful, informative, clear, and compelling treasure of a book!"
—KIMERER L. LAMOTHE, PhD, author of Why We Dance

"A profound and also practical work that coaches, therapists, and movement teachers will get a lot from. Take a breath, and dive in!"
MARK WALSH, author of Embodiment and founder of The Embodiment Conference

"Excellently selected literature and useful restorative tools make this book a rich source of enlightenment and usability. A must-read for anyone who wants to make the most out of the embodied experience."
—SABINE C. KOCH, PhD, director of the Research Institute of Creative Arts Therapies and professor of dance movement therapy at SRH University, Heidelberg, Germany

"[Fogel's] book is a definite read for anyone wishing to explore the different attributes of embodied awareness."
—DONALD BAKAL, PhD, professor emeritus at University of Calgary, and author of Minding the Body

"Alan Fogel successfully interweaves neurobiological knowledge with research evidence and clinical expertise. A must-read for beginners and experienced practitioners in embodied experiencing alike."
—MANON M. BARTSCH, MA, SRH University, Heidelberg, Germany

"This book is not about one particular therapeutic approach; rather, it highlights the types of daily interactions with people and nature that can draw us into restorative embodied experience, and the types of therapeutic approaches that can support our capacity to live more deeply in connection with ourselves."
—CYNTHIA PRICE, PhD, MA, LMT, professor at the University of Washington School of Nursing and director of Center for Mindful Body Awareness

"Alan Fogel has written a work of extraordinary synthesis and profound depth ... bringing together of so much that is excitingly new in science, alongside ancient wisdom and clinical thinking—all with body awareness at its heart." 
GRAHAM MUSIC, PhD, consultant psychotherapist at Tavistock Clinic and author of Nurturing Children

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