This is primarily a book about food — how stress and trauma cause us to make dietary decisions we regret like eating junk food and comfort eating, and how to support your default trauma reactions to eat foods that will help you feel better and reduce inflammation. There’s also some of the standard advice about forming connections, getting into nature, finding ways to exercise and so on. It’s a very judgement-free, sympathetic book but it is very focused on just food reactions to trauma. In my case, food isn’t really my issue with my challenges so it wasn’t really helpful. If you have disordered eating as a result of stress or abuse then this book may be very affirming and helpful.

I read a digital ARC of this book via netgalley.

This is Your Body on Trauma is a comprehensive, full-body explanation of what trauma does to the body. It's interesting and informative. If you're into this kind of self-help, you'll discover a lot about yourself in this book.