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Permission to Heal Episode #56- A Conversation with Laura Khoudari - The Healing Power of Lifting Heavy Things

Permission to Heal

English - January 12, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 416 ratings
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Welcome to Season 2 of Permission to Heal!  Thank you for returning and rejoining me and my weekly guests. I deeply appreciate you and love that you're here.

"You can use movement to help you thrive and have a fulfilling life...Any movement practice can be turned into a healing movement practice...You are coming home to your body. feeling the internal experience." – Laura Khoudari

Laura Khoudari is a trauma practitioner, certified personal trainer, and corrective exercise specialist. She is passionate about giving people the tools they need to heal from trauma and cultivate mental health and wellness. Her approach to strength training restores nervous system health, fosters a sense of safety in the body, & provides adjunctive support to people processing trauma so they may move beyond surviving and begin thriving. 

In her debut book, personal trainer & 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, Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time is a breakthrough book that will empower and inspire you to build emotional and physical strength through working out with weights while being mindful of the ways trauma can compromise the well-being of your mind and body.

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