Lifting Heavy Things, Laura Khoudari
Lifting Heavy Things, Laura Khoudari
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Lifting Heavy Things
Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time

Author: Laura Khoudari, Licia Sky

Narrator: Siiri Scott

Unabridged: 7 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/08/2022

Synopsis

In this innovative title, celebrated trainer and trauma practitioner Laura Khoudari brings a fresh approach to healing after trauma, using strength training as an embodied movement practice. Compassionate, witty, and fastidiously researched, Khoudari's debut, Lifting Heavy Things, is a breakthrough title that will empower and inspire you to develop resilience and build emotional and physical strength through working out with weights, while mindful of the ways that trauma can compromise the wellbeing of the mind and body.

In Lifting Heavy Things, you'll learn about: managing chronic pain; creating the conditions for training and healing; understanding how trauma shows up in daily life; using embodied movement practices (beyond yoga) as a tool to comfortably re-inhabit the body; navigating interpersonal relationships during and after the healing process; why you don’t have to tell your trauma story (to everyone); and thriving with and moving beyond trauma.

With humor, tenderness, and grit, Lifting Heavy Things takes listeners on a journey of personal revelation and integration, helping them to lighten their emotional burden and build deep inner strength to lift all of the heavy things that life may bring with greater ease.

About Laura Khoudari

A certified trauma practitioner and personal trainer, Laura Khoudari is passionate about giving people the tools they need to heal from trauma and cultivate mental health and wellness. Her work has been widely recognized by the trauma and fitness community, and she has been featured on Buzzfeed, UpWorthy, Outside Online, Medium, Tonic, and Girls Gone Strong. A lifelong student and writer, she is currently pursuing her master's in counseling for mental health and wellness at New York University. She lives in New York City with her family and two cats.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria

when I look at gym culture in media, i’m not a fan. i’m completely turned off by fitness goals that revolve solely around weight loss and being lean. for me, lifting is a type of meditation. It is about regaining strength and confidence. part self-help, part-memoir, LIFTING HEAVY THINGS explains how......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth

This is such a gentle book about working through trauma through embodied movement. Embodied movement is usually associated with yoga, but the author argues any movement practice can be embodied. I've been weightlifting for a while now, and her experience closely matches mine. I am not working throug......more

Goodreads review by K

I’m a fat and disabled exercise enthusiast because I’ve found that movement is one of the things that makes my existence more pleasurable. When I exercise (primarily through riding a gravel bike) and move not only do I improve my chronic pain, I find a way to express myself and my feelings in safer......more

Goodreads review by Christopher

My first exposure to somatic experience therapy was when I was deployed to Afghanistan in 2018. I was working with a psychologist, mental health technician, a physical therapist and an occupational therapist. We had a young soldier who was working through trauma and the psychologist proposed helping......more

Goodreads review by Becky

In the library of “books about strength training”, the vast majority are written by men, and the majority of those are also aimed exclusively at men. So when I find a book written by a woman, I’m immediately drawn to it. The perspective is so different, and this is no exception. I related to a lot of......more

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