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A celebrated strength trainer and trauma practitioner offers a fresh and empowering approach to healing and thriving after trauma.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 painCreating the conditions for training and healingUnderstanding how trauma shows up in daily lifeUsing embodied movement practices (beyond yoga) as a tool to comfortably re-inhabit the bodyNavigating interpersonal relationships during and after the healing processWhy you don’t have to tell your