Efu Nyaki is a healer born and raised in Tanzania who works internationally facilitating trainings and workshops on trauma healing as well as conducting individual and group sessions on trauma healing both in person and online. The cofounder of AFYA, a women’s holistic healing center in Brazil, she is a faculty member at the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and a professor of Systemic Family Constellations Therapy at the Hellinger Science Institute. She lives in Brazil.

“Efu Nyaki is a ‘healer of traumas.’ In this insightful and thought-provoking book, Nyaki shares how trauma becomes trapped in our bodies. By tapping into the wisdom of your body and the strength of your ancestry, she offers a way out through simple, yet powerful exercises. With illuminating stories of her clients, we are shown a path to being whole again. A must-read for those searching for a new way to heal old wounds!”

• Foreword by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.AcknowledgmentsINTRODUCTIONI Am the Dream of My AncestorsONEUnderstanding Somatic Experiencing for Trauma ResolutionAction Steps: Managing StressTWOUnderstanding Systemic Family Constellations Therapy (SFCT)Action Steps: Connecting with the FatherTHREEUnderstanding the Orders of LoveAction Steps: Family TreeFOURConnection and Relationship as Pathways to Wholeness and SpiritualityAction Steps: Connecting with the MotherFIVEDepressionAction Steps: Recalling the WombSIXHealing Sexual TraumaAction Steps: Healing Sexual EntanglementsSEVENFood and Drug AddictionAction Steps: Embracing the Father’s StrengthEIGHTAsthma and Other Respiratory ProblemsAction Steps: Honoring the MotherNINEManaging Extreme Anger and FearAction Steps: Using a Resource to Manage AngerTENA Covenant: Meaning and Its EffectsAction Steps: Returning a CovenantELEVENLong-Distance Healing Sessions for Trauma ResolutionCONCLUSIONA Sense of AweReferencesIndex