The Secret Language of the Body : Regulate your nervous system, heal your body, free your mind

As a trauma Therapist, I love to keep myself updated and this book does just that. Loving it so far.

This is a wonderful book to learn about the connection and co-relation between our mind and body. Also, how anxiety and stress can affect our body. Written by Health Research professionals: Jennifer Mann and Karden Rabin.

I first got it from my local library and read it over 3 weeks and tried out all the exercises in the book. I liked it so much that I ordered a copy for myself after returning the library book. Before I came upon this book I was already on a self-healing journey; I had been practicing meditation, qi gong and yoga regularly, was aware of polyvagal theory, read books on emotion, sought multiple types of holistic medicine and had already resolved a lot of my symptoms, so when I read this book everything made sense and allowed me to not only connect dots between a lot of scattered knowledge and beliefs from my own felt experience but also gain new insight and missing pieces. I like how the book is organized, it's easy to read and provides such a clear and gentle guide to a self-discovery journey. I highly recommend it to anyone with chronic physical symptoms and/or mental struggle, or a simple curiosity about cultivating higher mind-body awareness. If you're new to a lot of the concepts in the book and feel skeptical, I recommend that you don't try hard to accept it but don't dismiss it either. Take a pause, try other things, maybe do your own research, then maybe come back to it later.

En appliquant réellement les conseils, je constate de réelles changements. Attention, il faut faire un vrai travail sur le long terme pour obtenir de vraies changements durables, mais ce livre est l’outil le plus complet dans ce domaine à ce jour pour les utilisateurs non experts de la santé

Begeistert! Ein tolles Buch! Ich hatte schon länger das Gefühl, dass mein Nervensystem komplett im Alarmmodus ist und wusste nicht, wie ich es wieder auf den Boden der Tatsachen bekomme. Dieses Buch ist super und hilft erste Wege zu finden, sich mit seinem Nervensystem auseinanderzusetzen und verknüpft Theorie mit praktischen Übungen. Auch wenn jemand nur im Bett liegen kann, sind hilfreiche Übungen dabei. Ich möchte bald den Kurs bei den beiden buchen und hoffe dadurch PC/ Me/cfs zu lindern. Falls das klappt werde ich das hier vermerken! Das Buch an sich ist wirklich eine Empfehlung!

I wrote a very detailed review but Amazon said it breached their guidelines, I think possible because I talked too much about my past & why I've got a disregulated nervous system so here is my brief review. This book is excellent, very informative with thorough explanations together with practical exercises. If you want to know how to heal your nervous system & have tried conventional therapies & they haven't worked this book explains why & gives you the way out/the path. The first time I read it I was a bit overwhelmed as it contains a lot of information, the second time I understood it & made my own notes referencing page numbers to refer back to. As Jen & Karden say, pick the parts that speak to you, resonate with you & go with the practices. For the first time I am listening to my body & what it is trying to say to me instead of focusing on what my mind & thoughts are telling me. I'm trying not to ignore the whispers of my body, if you truly listen your body has all the answers. This book will show you how. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to heal their nervous system, you may have felt like this for years, I know I have & this book will show you how. After a week of reading it and doing some of the practices I already feel better. I'm on a journey to get to know me & my body & again this book has the answers. Reading Jen's own story & the other real life stories really resonated with me. There is hope, you are not stuck & you are certainly not broken. Thank you Jen & Karden for writing, this book will help a lot of people. I highly recommend this book.

I loved this book because it not only teaches you how your nervous system works but also gives you lots of practises to influence the phases that you're in. English isn't my first language but I was still able to understand it all. I find that the practises really work if you put the effort in, some feel quite silly and others will bring you great relief. I'm very glad I found this book and I've been trying all of them in the hopes of healing my (as I found out; severely dysregulated) nervous system.