When You Let the Body Lead (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Embodied Healing Press, 2026
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Paperback. There is a level of experience that talk therapy often can't reach and bodywork alone can't unlock - the implicit, bodily felt sense that shapes emotion, meaning, and behavior. When You Let the Body Lead presents Contemporary Focusing-Oriented Therapy, a fully updated re-visioning of Eugene Gendlin's foundational work, integrating it with current neuroscience, trauma theory, and relational and emotion-focused approaches.Through detailed case examples and moment-to-moment clinical guidance, Letich and Brenner show how to help clients contact the "unclear edge" of experience, stay with it safely, and follow the body's natural movement toward resolution. The book offers clinicians a reliable method for working with trauma, complex PTSD, dissociation, attachment wounds, stuckness, and overwhelming affect - while deepening therapeutic presence and attunement.Drawing on decades of clinical experience and shaped by the authors' direct training with Gendlin and Ann Weiser Cornell, When You Let the Body Lead speaks to therapists across modalities - including those trained in Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, AEDP, EFT, IFS, and EMDR - offering a unifying framework grounded in the body's own intelligence. Contemporary Focusing-Oriented Therapy stands alongside these established somatic approaches while offering a distinct emphasis on the felt sense and the body's forward-moving process of change.Written in a warm, jargon-free voice and featuring a foreword by Ann Weiser Cornell, this book provides a practical, compassionate pathway into the heart of experiential change. Whether you are an experienced somatic practitioner or a therapist seeking a more embodied way to work, When You Let the Body Lead offers a clinically grounded, deeply human approach to the work of psychological healing. When You Let the Body Lead presents Contemporary Focusing-Oriented Therapy: integrating neuroscience, trauma therapy, and relational approaches for embodied healing. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …
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- Title
- When You Let the Body Lead (Paperback)
- Author
- Laurence Letich
- Publisher
- Embodied Healing Press
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798995641209
There is a place in us that talk therapy often can't reach and bodywork alone can't unlock — a place where feelings begin, before they become words. In this wordless space lives the body's innate wisdom: a felt sense that holds the key to deep and lasting transformation.
When You Let the Body Lead introduces Contemporary Focusing-Oriented Therapy — a fully updated re-visioning of Eugene Gendlin's foundational work, grounded in current neuroscience and responsive to today's clinical realities. Through vivid case stories and moment-to-moment guidance, Letich and Brenner show how to help clients contact the "unclear edge" of experience, stay with it safely, and follow the body's natural movement toward resolution.
The book offers therapists a reliable method for working with trauma, complex PTSD, dissociation, attachment wounds, stuckness, and overwhelming affect — while deepening therapeutic presence and attunement. It speaks to clinicians across modalities — including those trained in Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, AEDP, EFT, IFS, and EMDR — offering a unifying framework grounded in the body's own intelligence.
Drawing on decades of clinical experience and direct training with Gendlin and Ann Weiser Cornell, and written in a warm, jargon-free voice, When You Let the Body Lead offers clinicians and thoughtful lay readers a path to healing rooted in presence, compassion, and embodied truth.
When we stop trying to fix ourselves and instead learn to listen, the body knows the way forward.
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About the Author
Helene G. Brenner, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with over 35 years of experience and a Certifying Coordinator in Focusing-Oriented Therapy through The International Focusing Institute. She is the author of I Know I'm In There Somewhere: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner Voice and Living a Life of Authenticity (Penguin/Avery, 2003). She trained directly with Eugene Gendlin and Ann Weiser Cornell, and her work integrates Focusing with AEDP, EMDR, and attachment-based approaches. She has taught at Omega Institute and Kripalu Center, and was a featured presenter at the 3rd Annual International Focusing-Oriented Therapy Conference. Her writing appears on Psychology Today's blog "The Art of Feeling". She co-directs the Center for Contemporary Focusing-Oriented Therapy with Laurence Letich.
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