Healing Trauma at the Cellular Level : The role of the cell danger response in trauma and PTSD recovery
Overview
You have done the therapy. You have talked about it, understood it, made sense of it. And your body still has not got the message.
There is a biological reason for that, and it happens below the level of thought.
With a foreword by Robert K. Naviaux, MD, PhD, the physician-scientist who first described the cell danger response, the biological alarm state at the centre of this book.
When a cell senses threat, it stops doing ordinary work and switches to defence. That response is meant to be temporary. Trauma, infection, poor sleep, unstable blood sugar and chronic stress can leave it switched on. Healing then stalls, not because a person is not trying, but because the cell has not been given the signal that the danger has passed.
This is what Greg Doney calls trauma at the cellular level, and it explains a pattern clinicians see constantly: the person who understands their history perfectly and still lives with exhaustion, pain, gut trouble, broken sleep and a nervous system that will not settle.
Inside the book
- What the cell danger response is, and what keeps it stuck
- Salugenesis, the body's own completion of healing, and how to support it
- Why memory, sleep, hormones, immunity and pain sit on the same circuit
- The five trauma responses, and why fight and flight are only part of the picture
- Bottom-up work: somatic experiencing, brainspotting, clay field and sandplay therapy, equine-assisted work, havening, frequency specific microcurrent, heat and cold, vagal and HRV training
- The biochemistry that gets missed: blood sugar, the gut, mitochondria, pathology that standard testing does not cover
- Attachment, childhood adversity, epigenetics and intergenerational patterns
- Concussion, anaesthesia, psychedelics, addiction and chronic pain, each read through the same lens
- How to put it together into daily life without turning recovery into a second job
Who it is for
Survivors of trauma and PTSD who have hit a wall with talk therapy alone. Therapists, psychologists, doctors, naturopaths and body workers who want the biology and the therapy in one place. Parents and partners trying to understand what they are seeing.
Forty-six chapters, 344 pages, written to be read by patients and cited by practitioners.
This book is educational and is not a substitute for individual medical or psychological care.
This item is Non-Returnable
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780646709048
- ISBN-10: 0646709046
- Publisher: Greg Doney
- Publish Date: December 2024
- Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.76 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 342
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