A practical guide to trauma recovery through harnessing the wisdom of your body from an award-winning author, scientist and generational trauma cycle breaker.

Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, burnout or the fallout of trauma, this book will show you how to heal using the power of your biology.

Ruth Clare spent decades in conventional therapy recalling painful stories of her childhood growing up with a violent father and an alcoholic mother in a home where she never felt safe. Despite all the money and effort she put in to getting over her trauma, she still found herself feeling on guard, swinging between cycles of anger, overwhelm and avoidance.

Desperate to find a solution, she spent years deep-diving into the emerging neuroscience of trauma, polyvagal and nervous system theory, building a framework of understanding of the way trauma lives on in the body and what we can do to discharge the survival energy that keeps us stuck.

A roadmap to trauma recovery and resilience, Beyond Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn shows you the tangible steps to take that allow you to finally let down your guard, treat yourself with more compassion and live with more openness, ease and joy.

With Beyond Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn you will learn how to:

  • recognise the biological factors and behaviours that amplify the impact of trauma and why the body is the missing link in trauma recovery
  • shift out of entrenched survival mode patterns, release survival energy and allow cycles of nervous system activation to complete
  • re-build feelings of safety in your body and support yourself during times of distress using anchoring resources
  • recognise the four nervous system survival states in real-time and use simple, evidence-based tools to return to calm after activation
  • use sensory stimuli to transform your home into a nervous system-supporting environment that diminishes vigilant tendencies
  • stop looping thoughts and ground yourself during emotional turmoil using the PRESENCE framework
  • gently challenge yourself to build more authentic connections with others after trauma
  • overcome your in-built negativity bias and strengthen your capacity to recognise and appreciate small and ordinary moments of joy and wonder in your life

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110 pages

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