Lifting Heavy Things
Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time
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Lifting Heavy Things
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Siiri Scott
About this listen
In this innovative title, celebrated trainer and 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, Khoudari's debut, Lifting Heavy Things, is a breakthrough title that will empower and inspire you to develop resilience and build emotional and physical strength through working out with weights, while mindful of the ways that trauma can compromise the wellbeing of the mind and body.
In Lifting Heavy Things, you'll learn about: managing chronic pain; creating the conditions for training and healing; understanding how trauma shows up in daily life; using embodied movement practices (beyond yoga) as a tool to comfortably reinhabit the body; navigating interpersonal relationships during and after the healing process; why you don't have to tell your trauma story (to everyone); and thriving with and moving beyond trauma.
With humor, tenderness, and grit, Lifting Heavy Things takes listeners on a journey of personal revelation and integration, helping them to lighten their emotional burden and build deep inner strength to lift all of the heavy things that life may bring with greater ease.
©2021 Laura Khoudari (P)2022 TantorListeners also enjoyed...
Also, there was one bit that stuck out to me where the author says we shouldn't try to pathologise everything (when talking about hyper/hypoarousal, I believe) and pretty much the next sentence she goes on to pathologise very normal differences in movement.
I feel this book is geared toward people with little to no gym. At parts it felt to me like this book might actually turn newbies who are on the fence about going to the gym away as the author talks in depth about the toxic environment of gyms. No doubt there are toxic environments in some gyms but it has mostly been my experience, and that of my queer friends, that gyms tend to be supportive environments where people want to see you reach your goals. The toxic elements are few and far between and are often weeded out where they occur.
Glad I got this book but it did fall short. Also, the narrator had a very calming voice and it flowed well, which made it an easy listening experience
I feel like I was mis-sold
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However, the author, while knowledgeable about her subject, falls into that trap American writers seem to have, of talking about herself incessantly. And I do mean, incessantly.
So, we get chapter and verse on what clothes she wore to school in 1992, and why, what bags she uses now, and why. It's all very surface, unfortunately, and with all the filler of the personal stuff, surprisingly lightweight on actual substance.
Also another book which assumes the US High School experience is universal, which it is not. School in the US sounds hideous!
The narration was fine, if a little arch, and grating.
Overall I'm afraid, although I tried numerous times to get into it, and derive some encouragement from it, this book did nothing to help me begin/maintain a fitness/weightlifting practice. It is not as the cover and blurb suggest, unfortunately.
Apologies to all involved, and I rarely leave reviews, but this book was wide enough of the mark that I'd refund it if I could.
Time to look elsewhere for the knowledge and encouragement I need.
A missed opportunity
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