20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model
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"20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction is a profound guide to reclaiming one’s body, life, and sense of self. By listening to the wisdom of our bodies and cultivating a sense of safety, we can break free from the cycles of trauma and addiction that have held us back. Winhall’s book offers both hope and practical tools for those on this healing journey, transforming how we view and address trauma and addiction"

From the Foreward by Stephen W. Porges, PhD Distinguished University Scientist, founding director, Traumatic Stress Research Consortium, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Bloomington; professor of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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This new book is a practical extension of my earlier work, “Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model” (2021), which was tailored for clinicians and mental health experts. Designed for both professionals and their clients, 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction emphasizes hands-on application. It introduces four core concepts of the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ and guides the reader through 20 embodied practices to recognize their body’s capacity for sensing safety and cultivating a grounded felt sense.

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Join Jan in real time as she guides you and a private group of like-minded individuals through the healing practices found in her new book 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model

Over the course of 20 weeks, a small group of no more than 36 participants will be guided through the 20 embodied practices in live 2-hour sessions by Jan and her FSPM-Certified Facilitators. Each participant will be paired in a felt sense/focusing partnership. You and your focusing partner will meet in between the live sessions to engage with the practices. After each focusing session you will submit a process recording that describes your experience. You will have the opportunity to connect directly with Jan as she reads and responds to each of your submissions.To make this important resource as accessible as possible for clinicians and anyone on a journey to heal, the book is available in an audio format read by the author and learning accommodations will be provided by Jessica Zormann, FSPM facilitator and ADD specialist.

Community Practice Group Facilitators

Claudia Goetzelmann is certified in the modalities of the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (FSPM), Compassionate Inquiry (CI) and the Polyvagal Theory (PVI). She also works with Focusing and Internal Family Systems (IFS). Her approach is holistic and integrative. Creating safety and stabilization is at the base of her work with it being centered around Childhood Trauma, C-PTSD, Addiction and Grief. She has studied Relational Psychedelic Therapy with focus on Integration (PAT). She is also an End of Life Doula and a certified Grief Tender and Ritualist under the guidance of Francis Weller. She considers herself a Global Being, and an Elder in Training.www.permissiontobloom.org

Travis Goodman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Mind+Body Coach. He has further expertise, training, and certification in Attachment-Focused EMDR, Polyvagal- Informed Focusing Trainer (PIFOT), Certified Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Facilitator (FSPM), Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).Through his Men’s Collective podcast, Travis invites you to hear and share in journeying towards integration psychologically, physically, socially, and spiritually as men.https://www.travisgoodmanlmft.com/ https://menscollective.com/

Elizabeth Moitoza earned her MSW from Boston College in 1980 and has dedicated her career to supporting clients while continuously pursuing her own professional development. With extensive experience in family and couples therapy, she is certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy and has worked with many couples facing challenges. Additionally, Elizabeth has trained in Internal Family Systems and EMDR to help clients dealing with trauma. Her personal journey includes years of 12-step recovery, which deepened her understanding of addiction. Motivated to enhance her skills in trauma and addiction treatment, she began training with Jan Winhall and was inspired by Winhall’s work on the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, finding the focus on the nervous system and body essential for healing. Elizabeth is a certified Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Facilitator.

Jessica Zormann is a Focusing Oriented Psychotherapist and Certified FSPM Facilitator based in Toronto, Canada. Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, Jessica helps clients with ADHD and AuDHD to manage intense emotions and make progress toward their goals. Jessica will be available to provide accommodations for neurodivergent participants.https://www.jessicazormann.com

Ragna Reiske is a Certified FSPM Facilitator and a Naturopathic Doctor working with trauma-related mind-body challenges and highly receptive nervous systems. As well as being a Focusing Trainer, Ragna has additional training in Liebscher & Bracht Pain and Movement Therapy, Neural Somatic Integration and Pain Reprocessing Therapy.

Soo Strong is a Certified Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Facilitator and a certified focusing professional. She is an experienced somatic coach, NLP coach and mindfulness teacher. She has engaged with trauma and addiction processing from the inside out to heal her own issues and now successfully supports others to transform theirs.Certified in the following modalities: Somatic coach, EFT practitioner, NLP master practitioner, mindfulness teacher,EMCC Senior Coach Practitioner, Reiki 1 and 2, and HeartMath Trauma-Sensitive Practitioner and Poet. www.soostrong.com

Robert Ragucci became a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in 2000, specializing in Addiction, Codependency, and Recovery for individuals, couples, and small groups.. He served as a Drug and Alcohol Counselor for Options Recovery Services for 16 years, teaching classes on Terence Gorski’s Denial Management, Stephanie Brown’s Developmental Model of Recovery, James Prochaska’s Stages and Processes of Change, and Meditation. For the past 10 years, he has been a student of the spiritual teacher Thomas Huebl.Robert has spent the past three years studying Jan Winhall’s Felt Sense Polyvagal Model and is now a certified FSPM Facilitator and a Polyvagally-Informed Focusing Trainer. He is credited with contributing the fourth circle in Jan’s Four Circles model. He is the Focusing Accountability Partner of Elizabeth Moitoza. Additionally, Robert is a Safe and Sound Protocol Provider as well as a Rest and Recover Protocol Provider.

The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (FSPM) is a radical departure from the norm. Traditional models of talk therapy try to figure problems out in your head, using your thoughts as your guiding light. This is a tragic mistake. Our culture has forgotten that we live in our bodies. But our bodies have not forgotten us…the body speaks to us in many ways.
– Jan Winhall

What this book is about...

What if addiction, dissociation, and other manifestations of trauma were not framed as diseases or disorders, but rather as adaptive methods of regulating the autonomic nervous system (ANS)? This book takes that approach, and guides readers through 20 embodied practices that promote the rewiring of the ANS. By integrating the latest neuroscience from Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theory with Eugene Gendlin’s embodied felt sense, Jan Winhall’s Felt Sense Polyvagal Model is a paradigm-shifting, deeply somatic approach to healing trauma and addiction.

Trauma and addiction heal in tandem with this paradigm-shifting approach.

Readers are presented with two vital tools for healing: learning how to recognize and rewire their autonomic state, and finding the felt sense of somatic wisdom. This compassionate and inviting model centers the intelligence of the body to allow for deep healing, and these 20 step-by step exercises present an accessible approach for clinicians, their clients, and anyone on the journey to healing from trauma and addiction. The book’s exercises are uniquely designed to be completed either with a mental health professional, another person engaged in this embodied process (a felt sense partner), or both.

What They're Saying About This Book

Jan Winhall has a remarkable way of taking complex subjects and grounding them in practical, healing strategies that work. She invites you to relate to addictions as learned habits that can be unlearned. Rooted in trauma-informed care and Polyvagal Theory, Winhall provides a compassionate understanding of how addictive behaviors were developed as the best-known attempts to manage adverse life events and the resulting dysregulated nervous system. Here, you are skillfully guided through the felt sense approach to reduce the harm of addictions while enhancing your capacity for joy!

Arielle Schwartz, PhD Clinical psychologist and author of The Complex PTSD Workbook

What I find most compelling about this book is the compassion and warmth that accompany the reader’s journey from hiding and isolation, hallmarks of trauma and addiction, to openness and self-acceptance. It’s a journey that passes through many landscapes, including the scientific foundation of bodily health, cultural distinctions in our understanding of risk, and modes of thought and action that cultivate trust, both of ourselves and of others. This book takes focusing on the road, from a conceptual understanding—of, indeed, a bodily exploration—to a fluid (meta-focusing), intuition-guided methodology that links urgent needs to real solutions, concretely defined, and available either in therapy or outside of therapy. Grounded in the body’s urge for self-care, Winhall’s exercises offer a remarkable pathway through emotional healing.

Marc Lewis, PhD Marc Lewis, PhD, C. Psych, professor emeritus of developmental psychology and neuroscience, University of Toronto, and clinical psychologist, Author of The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease

Jan Winhall highlights the vital importance of drawing on one’s inner wisdom when healing from trauma and addiction. This work empowers both trauma clinicians and survivors and instills hope in those who are healing from trauma.

Ruth A. Lanius, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of psychiatry, director of the PTSD Research Unit, and Harris-Woodman Chair, University of Western Ontario

Jan Winhall’s new guidebook is brimming with enlightened, effective strategies for addressing the deeply interwoven challenges of treating trauma and addiction. Centered by the Four Circles Harm Reduction Practice, her body-centered model of 20 practices is bolstered by an insightful theoretical foundation combined with deep respect for the wisdom of the body to release self-acceptance and healing. Organized with a gentle, grounded, step-by-step approach, this book will become an inspirational companion for therapists and their clients searching for an innovative, nonjudgmental paradigm for addressing addictive processes and underlying trauma.

Cece Sykes, LCSW Consultant, senior international trainer, Internal Family Systems Institute, and coauthor of Internal Family Systems for Addiction

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Books by Jan Wnhall:

Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (2021)

20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (2025)

Jan also has edited and or written chapters in these books:

Somatic-Oriented Therapies (2025)

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