Harper Call of the Wild, Self-Improvement & Colouring, Hardback, Kimberly Johnson
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Author: NEKTARIA POSPORI
Rating: 5
Review: Wow, ground breaking information, I’m devouring it! So grateful for the author (she’s got a few fantastic masterclasses as well).
Author: Kate White
Rating: 5
Review: Book Review: Call of the Wild: How We Heal Our Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It for Good by Kimberly Ann Johnson Kate White, SEP As a therapist and educator in helping people understand the physiology of their nervous system’s response to threat and stress, I want to praise the publication of Call of Wild by Kimberly Ann Johnson, not only for it’s straight forward and direct way of writing, but also for the granulated way it describes trauma resolution for those truly wanting to understand human health. Kimberly writes for an audience of those seeking healing from trauma, particularly women. I also write in praise of her voice as a woman, weaving in her life experience and considerable training as a bodyworker, yogi, mother and Somatic Experiencing practitioner (SEP). Somatic healing work has many approaches that include the autonomic nervous system’s response to threat and stress. As a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, I was taught to help people track their sensations in relationship to their feelings of safety and security, and what their body would have done to protect themselves in the face of threat, usually falling in the categories of flight, fight or freeze. There are layers and nuances in each category, including fainting, and fawning (now more commonly referred to as please and appease), or variations of dissociation, shut down, collapse in the freeze category or irritability, anger, and rage (and more) in the fight/flight category. In my work training practitioners, there are so many times when we activate these parts of ourselves every day, and in special circumstances. Categories here include assault, medical trauma, shock, developmental trauma, horror, and inescapable situations that happen every day. As an educator and a therapist, I help my clients identify their responses to overwhelming situations and help them heal these places with processes of integration. Kimberly Ann Johnson has written a text that will help the reader identify their responses, and further catalog their behaviors, thoughts, and sensations. She has developed her own approaches to help people understand the nature of trauma and its legacy in our bodies and our lives. Each chapter has descriptions, exercises and maps for the reader. For example, in Chapter One: A Real-World Understand of the Nervous System, she defines our nervous system responses in detail and in plain language for the uninitiated in understanding threat responses. She outlines our places of safety and connection (Social Engagement) and then breaks down the nervous system responses into different categories: Fit In, Fawn, Fight, Flight, and Freeze, calling them emotional signposts of nervous system states under stress. She further delineates our nervous system responses in our bodies as tissue states, which I have not seen before. Are you very elastic in your body or are you chronically tight? Kimberly Ann Johnson helps you explore your body, nervous system states and responses so you can have a holistic picture. The following chapters further break down your nervous system responses, and Kimberly gives you specific tools for healing and reflection. In Chapter Two, she offers the mnemonic TIMEs, Thought, Image, Movement, Emotion and Sensation. She invites you to also explore positive sensations and resilience, offering the specific tools well known in trauma resolution of presence and pendulation between what are positive sensations and more overwhelming ones. She provides many examples for the reader to explore their experience. The book gives you ways to experience and explore our human/animal behaviors of predator and prey to improve your radar for safety and threat. Kimberly Ann Johnson invites you to find your own inner predator, including her own story of find her inner Jaguar. She describes her healing journey, and her trainings, including her interest in sex, sexuality, and trauma. Her exercises and sensitive writing invite you to explore your own tendencies and encourage you to stretch your ways of behaving and knowing. Examples in the book include showing your “fangs,” learning how to “roar,” exploring feeling bigger, tracking your system, understanding how you try to fit in, or fawn as ways to stay connected to your tribe. Final chapters explore attachment and relationships, helping readers identify their early childhood tendencies in their caregiving relationships. These early relationships pattern our nervous system very early. Our biology is intimately connected with our mothers, fathers, and our family systems. I enjoyed Kimberly Ann Johnson’s description of the attachment styles. My only criticism of this book is that I wish the author had explored developmental trauma here, especially the category of disorganized attachment. Most of us who enter the healing arts do so to heal our early ruptures and traumas, and many of us have had challenges to our nervous system in this early childhood time. The chapter before conclusions in about sex and sexual freedom. It is a relief to be with someone who has such comfort and command when talking about sexual relations and our bodies. This is good medicine for the modern human, especially coming from an empowered female voice. Additional materials at the end of the book include all the exercises in one place so you can go step by step through a healing process, as well as vocabulary and descriptions of each of our nervous system states. I highly recommend Call of the Wild. It will be part of my book list for upcoming courses in helping people understand their nervous system responses, and perhaps encouraging our health and connection to heal a world full of hurt. We can help ourselves and each other with books such as this and find our own inner peace and tools for understanding.
