Live Call with Dr. Janina Fisher on her book: “Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma”

Traumatic experiences leave a living legacy of scars that often linger for years and decades after the events have ended. It is often assumed that retelling the story of what happened resolves these effects. However, survivors report a different experience: Telling and retelling the story of what happened to them often reactivates their traumatic responses, overwhelming them rather than resolving the trauma.

To transform traumatic experiences, survivors need ways to work with symptoms that intrude on their daily activities, preventing them from living beyond the trauma.

In this book, Dr.  Janina Fisher offers step-by-step strategies that trauma survivors can use alone or in collaboration with their therapist. It includes simple diagrams that make sense of the confusing feelings and physical reactions survivors experience, and worksheets for practicing healing skills.

Author of the book: Dr. Janina Fisher, clinical psychologist

Janina Fisher, Ph.D., is a doctor of psychology and a clinical psychologist. Dr. Fisher is the Associate Educational Director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and a former professor at Harvard Medical School. As an international expert in trauma treatment, she is the author of Healing the Inner Fragmentation of Trauma Survivors and she is the co-author, with Pat Odgen, of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment. She is known for her work on integrating neuroscientific research and new body-centered interventions into traditional approaches to psychotherapy.