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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       

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Release date: March 18, 2025 as paperback, e-book, and audiobook

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

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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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.

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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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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