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When You Let the Body Lead : Embodied Healing and Change with Contemporary Focusing-Oriented Therapy

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There is a level of experience that talk therapy often can't reach and bodywork alone can't unlock - the implicit, bodily felt sense that shapes emotion, meaning, and behavior. When You Let the Body Lead presents Contemporary Focusing-Oriented Therapy, a fully updated re-visioning of Eugene Gendlin's foundational work, integrating it with current neuroscience, trauma theory, and relational and emotion-focused approaches.

Through detailed case examples and moment-to-moment clinical guidance, Letich and Brenner show how to help clients contact the "unclear edge" of experience, stay with it safely, and follow the body's natural movement toward resolution. The book offers clinicians a reliable method for working with trauma, complex PTSD, dissociation, attachment wounds, stuckness, and overwhelming affect - while deepening therapeutic presence and attunement.

Drawing on decades of clinical experience and shaped by the authors' direct training with Gendlin and Ann Weiser Cornell, When You Let the Body Lead speaks to therapists across modalities - including those trained in Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, AEDP, EFT, IFS, and EMDR - offering a unifying framework grounded in the body's own intelligence. Contemporary Focusing-Oriented Therapy stands alongside these established somatic approaches while offering a distinct emphasis on the felt sense and the body's forward-moving process of change.

Written in a warm, jargon-free voice and featuring a foreword by Ann Weiser Cornell, this book provides a practical, compassionate pathway into the heart of experiential change. Whether you are an experienced somatic practitioner or a therapist seeking a more embodied way to work, When You Let the Body Lead offers a clinically grounded, deeply human approach to the work of psychological healing.

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  • ISBN-13: 9798995641209
  • ISBN-10: 9798995641209
  • Publisher: Embodied Healing Press
  • Publish Date: June 2026
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.73 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.97 pounds
  • Page Count: 328

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